From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Wed May 12 2010 - 07:39:47 EDT
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article35043 Ethiopia’s leader warns
Eritrea over "aggressions"
Wednesday 12 May 2010
<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=imprimable&id_article=35043>
May 11, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) --- Ethiopian Prime minister Meles Zenawi has
advised arch-foe Eritrea to refrain from what he said was a "growing
aggression by Asmara".
PM Meles Zenawi, also commander in-chief of the national defense forces,
stressed that his army is militarily capable of smashing down any foreign
invaders to safe guard country; however he said that the Ethiopian
government has preferred to pass to a number of hostilities by Eritrea.
"The Ethiopian government and our defense forces have refrained from
retaliating to Eritrea’s repeated aggressions." Zenawi said adding "That is
because we abide by international laws and due the determination we
prioritize for peace".
"However, Eritrea or others shouldn’t draw a false conclusion to the
over-patience we are tolerating," he said.
"But the aggressors, especially the Eritrean government must know that our
patience does not mean that it doesn’t have a limit to break," he
underscored.
The premier made the remarks while addressing military officers who were
graduating from the Ethiopian defense command and staff college on Saturday.
Ethiopia is accusing Eritrea of trying to disrupt this month’s national
election.
Addis Ababa has hold Asmara responsible to a recent bomb blast at a border
town of Adi-Daro, which killed 5 people and injured many others. Last week
Ethiopian security forces said they have arrested Eritrean-sent Al-shebaba
extremists and Oromo rebel groups who were trying to sneak in through
Somalia.
With tensions still rising, the two neighbors currently remain in a no-war
no-peace situation, after they went in to a bloody border war that claimed
70,000 people in 1998-2000.
(ST)
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