Addis Ababa, (SONNA) – In a press convention upon his departure from Addis Ababa, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud strongly condemned the Ethiopian authorities beneath PM Abiy Ahmed for blatantly infringing on Somalia’s sovereignty and aggressively looking for to annex its territory.
The President highlighted an incident the place the convoy of H.E. President Hassan Sheikh and H.E. President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti, together with their accompanying delegations, confronted forceful makes an attempt by Ethiopian Authorities safety personnel to stop their entry into the summit proceedings.
“This morning as I used to be coming to attend the summit, the Ethiopian safety blocked my approach, they refused me to return out of the lodge, and go on with my vehicles and entourage to return to this assembly. It took me a very long time to remain there and on the finish, I got here with one other President’s automotive and entourage.
And we got here to the African Union’s headquarters once more two presidents of us, the President of the Republic of Djibouti and Myself once more we have been blocked from getting into the AU headquarters, and a soldier with a gun stood in entrance of us and denied entry to this facility,” President Hassan stated.
He additionally stated that he heard that different presidents have been additionally handled the identical and skilled comparable unhealthy therapy.
“Somalia as a founding member of the African Union we don’t deserve that therapy from a rustic that hosts the African Union,” he added.
The regrettable incident establishes a harmful precedent for future summits and displays poorly on Ethiopia’s reliability as a bunch and its dedication to upholding the values of the African Union.
