Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said his government would drive out Eritrean forces from Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region militarily any time when necessary.<\/p>\n
The Ethiopian premier made the pledge to former US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey David Feltman, according to Foreign Affairs, a leading magazine that makes in-depth analysis and debate of foreign policy, geopolitics and international affairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbiy has assured me and others that he can manage the Eritreans, to the point of expelling them militarily from Tigray if necessary,\u201d Feltman said in his writing entitled \u2018Ethiopia\u2019s Hard Road to Peace\u2019 and published on Foreign Affairs on December 26, 2022.<\/p>\n
Feltman, however, said that the Ethiopian prime minister\u2019s confidence seems unmoored from reality arguing that even if Isaias withdraws Eritrean troops from Tigray, he (Isaias) would retain other methods of interfering in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmong the Ethiopian proxies Asmara has cultivated are hard-line Amhara militias who share Isaias\u2019s hatred of the Tigrayans and who might be persuaded to flout their obligation under the Nairobi declaration to withdraw from parts of Tigray that they currently claim and control,\u201d Feltman said. <\/p>\n
Going into the peace talks in Pretoria, the Ethiopian government was in a much stronger military position than the TPLF, the special envoy continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot surprisingly, the agreement the two sides reached there on November 2 tilted in Addis Ababa\u2019s favor, providing for the restoration of Ethiopian federal authority in Tigray and the dissolution of the TPLF administration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to the US special envoy, the agreement has flaws, including an overly ambitious initial timetable for TPLF disarmament, inadequate monitoring and reporting processes, a lack of clarity on accountability, and, most seriously, silence on Eritrea, except for a vague prohibition on \u201ccollusion with any external force hostile to either party.<\/p>\n
Regardless of these imperfections, the Ethiopians deserve credit for agreeing to end the bloodshed, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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