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Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin said his country has been promoting its position that the international community and the (UN) Security Council keep on discharging thier responsibility of extending appropriate support towards maintaining peace and stability in Somalia.
Seyoum told ENA (Ethiopian News Agency) on Wednesday (8 October) that Ethiopia has been calling on the international community and the UN Security Council to extend their support to the deployment of African peacekeeping forces fully to Somalia.
He further said his country has also been repeatedly calling, through the AU and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), for the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces to Somalia.
Ethiopia has also advanced the same position in the 63rd UN General Assembly (UNGA).
Seyoum said the international community has not played a meaningful role to ensure peace in Somalia while it was torn apart by civil war for 18 years. He said the international community and the Security Council need to discharge their responsibility appropriately in this regard.
Mr. Mesfin intends to make it clear that "the international community" has not provided adequate commitment to “maintain peace and stability in Somalia”
Well! We all know that there is no peace to maintain in that country in an endless civil war, and talking about stability in Somalia is really a bad joke that does not make anyone laugh. We need first to create peace before maintaining it.
I can understand that there is a diplomatic vocabulary which the Foreign Minister can not escape, but that vocabulary is not used at random and by anyone.
It works if used only from a position of strength.
When the U.S Secretary of State says the "international community" must do more in Afghanistan, in reality she's not talking to a non-existent "International Community", but to specific countries and to clear Heads of Government from precise position of a strength . Read, if you don’t do so and so I’ll do that to you".
His words have different weights on the Pakistani government and Chinese or French. The first, the government of Musharaf has already fallen because his commitment was not considered sufficient by the U.S. China is not even aware of this "lack of international engagement."
The same thing said by the Ethiopian Foreign Minister for a different circumstance, has no effect.
In fact, the Ethiopian Minister speaks with precise Heads of Governments, those who have encouraged him to invade Somalia and from which one expects a political, economical and military support.
The difference is that one says, "Hey, if you do not do this thing I’ll do this and that to you," while another says, "but hell! you promised to help me if I had done so".
Ethiopia is facing a decision not enough pondered before being made. Invading Somalia.
Ethiopia could not think to control Somalia. It does not have enough military and economic forces, but thought to work by proxy in the "war on terror" and thereby gain support and sympathy from the chief, Bush.
The same thing did Saddam Hussein in the Iran war of the 80s, when the Ayatullah came to power.
Even then it was necessary to contain Islamist fervour that radiated from Iran to the rest of the Islamic world, putting in trouble U.S. allied regimes like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Then the strongest army in the Middle East was unleashed, properly prepared and armed by the U.S. and that annihilated in a day, without any protest from the world, two Iranian islands. The war continued for a decade.
Only the Austrian UN ambassador said he was surprised and was immediately recalled and replaced by his government.
Saddam Hussein made a proxy war, and everyone knows the end of the story. He's hanged in Direct TV after the public exposure of the bodies of his sons, killed by the same persons that once sponsored him.
Meles is now doing a proxy war, but starts to realize that the mandant wants to wash his hands of this problem. The important thing for the mandant was that Islamists were ousted, and if he can save money once they’re driven away he has everything to gain. So why paying who left for the war without first cashing the check?
From here begins the problem of Meles. He asks himself what to do without money from the boss when his troops are hungry and without shoes like fascists who invaded Ethiopia decades ago and Somalis are fighting instead of surrendering all at once?
I wouldn't like to be in his shoes right now, but gonna give him a hint. Withdraw from Somalia without waiting for any "exit strategy". Only those who have a face to lose, like the U.S. in Iraq, and do not want to lose, can afford that long time approach. Not the Ethiopian army in Somalia.
Hussein Aden
Seyoum told ENA (Ethiopian News Agency) on Wednesday (8 October) that Ethiopia has been calling on the international community and the UN Security Council to extend their support to the deployment of African peacekeeping forces fully to Somalia.
He further said his country has also been repeatedly calling, through the AU and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), for the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces to Somalia.
Ethiopia has also advanced the same position in the 63rd UN General Assembly (UNGA).
Seyoum said the international community has not played a meaningful role to ensure peace in Somalia while it was torn apart by civil war for 18 years. He said the international community and the Security Council need to discharge their responsibility appropriately in this regard.
Mr. Mesfin intends to make it clear that "the international community" has not provided adequate commitment to “maintain peace and stability in Somalia”
Well! We all know that there is no peace to maintain in that country in an endless civil war, and talking about stability in Somalia is really a bad joke that does not make anyone laugh. We need first to create peace before maintaining it.
I can understand that there is a diplomatic vocabulary which the Foreign Minister can not escape, but that vocabulary is not used at random and by anyone.
It works if used only from a position of strength.
When the U.S Secretary of State says the "international community" must do more in Afghanistan, in reality she's not talking to a non-existent "International Community", but to specific countries and to clear Heads of Government from precise position of a strength . Read, if you don’t do so and so I’ll do that to you".
His words have different weights on the Pakistani government and Chinese or French. The first, the government of Musharaf has already fallen because his commitment was not considered sufficient by the U.S. China is not even aware of this "lack of international engagement."
The same thing said by the Ethiopian Foreign Minister for a different circumstance, has no effect.
In fact, the Ethiopian Minister speaks with precise Heads of Governments, those who have encouraged him to invade Somalia and from which one expects a political, economical and military support.
The difference is that one says, "Hey, if you do not do this thing I’ll do this and that to you," while another says, "but hell! you promised to help me if I had done so".
Ethiopia is facing a decision not enough pondered before being made. Invading Somalia.
Ethiopia could not think to control Somalia. It does not have enough military and economic forces, but thought to work by proxy in the "war on terror" and thereby gain support and sympathy from the chief, Bush.
The same thing did Saddam Hussein in the Iran war of the 80s, when the Ayatullah came to power.
Even then it was necessary to contain Islamist fervour that radiated from Iran to the rest of the Islamic world, putting in trouble U.S. allied regimes like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Then the strongest army in the Middle East was unleashed, properly prepared and armed by the U.S. and that annihilated in a day, without any protest from the world, two Iranian islands. The war continued for a decade.
Only the Austrian UN ambassador said he was surprised and was immediately recalled and replaced by his government.
Saddam Hussein made a proxy war, and everyone knows the end of the story. He's hanged in Direct TV after the public exposure of the bodies of his sons, killed by the same persons that once sponsored him.
Meles is now doing a proxy war, but starts to realize that the mandant wants to wash his hands of this problem. The important thing for the mandant was that Islamists were ousted, and if he can save money once they’re driven away he has everything to gain. So why paying who left for the war without first cashing the check?
From here begins the problem of Meles. He asks himself what to do without money from the boss when his troops are hungry and without shoes like fascists who invaded Ethiopia decades ago and Somalis are fighting instead of surrendering all at once?
I wouldn't like to be in his shoes right now, but gonna give him a hint. Withdraw from Somalia without waiting for any "exit strategy". Only those who have a face to lose, like the U.S. in Iraq, and do not want to lose, can afford that long time approach. Not the Ethiopian army in Somalia.
Hussein Aden
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