Foreign Affairs Magazine published an article entitled: “Ethiopia’s Hard Road to Peace”, by former US Special Envoy, Jeffrey Feltman, on 26 December this week.
The misleading title notwithstanding, Feltman’s underlying and transparent intentions are to stoke a new and wider war in the region.
This is not surprising in many ways. Indeed, when Feltman was appointed as the US Special Envoy to the HOA, his first and awkward public act was to disparage and label in very pejorative terms, his potential hosts – the governments and leaders of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. For him, the Tripartite Summits between Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia were malign architectures that posed, in his warped perspective, “a threat to regional peace and stability”. The historic EritreaEthiopia Peace & Friendship Agreement was cast in the same negative light.
These provocative public pronouncements could not be shrugged off, even then, as diplomatic gaffes that stemmed from lack of tact or experience. They illustrated, from the get-go, the sinister objectives of his mission which boiled down to resuscitating the TPLF under any means and through various subterfuges
