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UN chief urges ceasefire in Ethiopia as federal army says it won’t attack Tigray

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) to reach a ceasefire after federal forces and their regional allies in Amhara and Afar were ordered to stay without going to attack further into the Tigray region.

December 24, 2021
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. [Photo via Getty Images]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. [Photo via Getty Images]
ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to reach a ceasefire after federal forces and their regional allies in Amhara and Afar were ordered to stay without going to attack further into the Tigray region.

On Friday, the Ethiopian Government Communications Service (GCS) said federal forces have been ordered to maintain their current positions without going to attack deep inside Tigray region. That announcement followed a decision by the TPLF chief to withdraw his forces from Amhara and Afar regions in an attempt to create ‘an opening for peace’.

In a statement, the Deputy UN Spokesman Farhan Hag said the UN chief has welcomed the decision by the Ethiopian government to cease attacks against the Tigray region and urged the parties to use the opportunity to make a ceasefire which he said will help ensure that humanitarian aid reach the needy.

“The Secretary-General welcomes the Government of Ethiopia’s announcement yesterday that the Ethiopian National Defence Force will pause at its current positions. He also welcomes the Tigrayan forces’ message that they had withdrawn from the Afar and Amhara regions back into the Tigray region,” the statement said.

“The Secretary-General urges the parties to grasp this opportunity, cease hostilities in the year-long conflict, take all steps to ensure the provision of much-needed humanitarian assistance, the withdrawal of foreign fighters, and address political differences through a credible and inclusive national dialogue,” the statement added.

It says the Secretary-General “also welcomes the Tigrayan forces’ message that they had withdrawn from the Afar and Amhara regions back into the Tigray region.”

“The Secretary-General encourages the parties to continue engagement with the African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa, President Olusegun Obasanjo, and reiterates the full support of the United Nations to President Obasanjo’s mediation efforts. He calls on the international community to play a constructive role in supporting an end to the fighting.”

Last week, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva held a special session where countries voted to establish an international expert commission to investigate allegations of violations during the conflict.

The government in Addis Ababa has lamented the move calling it a political game being played against the East African country by some foreign powers. None of the 13 African members of the Council voted to support the formation of the committee.

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  1. Gol Bol says:
    6 months ago

    “UN chief urges ceasefire in Ethiopia as federal army says it won’t attack Tigray”

    So long as vermins/parasites/viruses go back Yemen in peace, before put our hands on them. Our Gambella region has been taken back. The vermins/parasites/virures have badly attached them to our country and over our people leeches or ticks. This Portuguese piece of trash don’t know, how much they are not considered anything. Here in the Nilotic plains and Valleys. The low [life] can go and play games in Angola, Mozambique, Port Jesus in Mombasa, Kenya, Macau island of China, East Timore, in Asia and Pacific and Brazil. But for I care. The vermins/parasites/viruses must look for a place to hide. Who gives a damn about so-called UN. if damned UN were to be anything, the rubbish (vermins/parasites/viruses) should go just and ‘poke’ their usual evil long noses into *Russia federations, Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, Mr. Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus, just Yemen, Palestine, Libya (where then so-called free Libyan army?), so-called free Syrian Army, Tunisian’s Arab spring, Black hawk downs——-where Mr. Pope Francis, a former Argentian piece of scrounger, where queen Elizabeth of the devil infested island of England, Where is Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, we are going a piece of sewer and killed to the secret societies that we are playing with them, where is former UN and the UNSC leader, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, a slitty-eyed piece of trash? Abesh (so-called ethiopian) lowly educated piece of low life, seyoum Mesfin was used by so-called *IGAD-plus* to draft this nonsense and tossed into South Sudan and the South Sudanese people throats: https://peacemaker.un.org/node/2676
    to sign the damned document by force. The low lives are juxtaposes with us, South Sudanese by our enemies all the times, they even to idea, that they are Ethiopians, since when? Mr. Abiy Ahmed we have the Europeans to give another 2nd so-called *Nobel Peace prize*

    Nelson Mandela, Arch Bishop Tutu, Barack Hussein Barack and of pieces of trash with Nobel Prize. Follow the Muonyjiengs/Jienges/Jaangs/Jenges/Dinkas of the Sudan and Egypt. This is not a COLD WAR, but a HOT WAR. Can Muonyjiengs/Jienges/Jaangs/Jenges/Dinkas of the Sudan and Egypt lives sides by sides with vermins/parasites/viruses in name of AFRICAN UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION, That will the ‘biblical camel passing through an eye of a needle—–reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM. We are the Ethiopians.>>>>>

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