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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05ADDISABABA3382 |
ETHIOPIA: CUD COUNCIL DISTANCES ITSELF FROM HAILU [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 21, the CUD, Ethiopia's largest opposition coalition, issued a statement that distances the CUD Council from provocative comments made by Coalition Chairman Hailu Shawel in Washington. The CUD statement notes that Shawel's comments, which included a commitment to [...] |
2005-09-23 15:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3383 |
ETHIOPIA: INFO MINISTER BEREKET SAY GOE OPEN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOE Minister of Information Bereket Simon told Charge Sept. 15 that the GOE would consider steps to restore confidence in Ethiopian democratic institutions, but only after the opposition agrees to participate in Parliament. He welcomed the Ambassadors' Donors Group (ADG) statemen [...] |
2005-09-23 15:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3425 |
ETHIOPIA: CUD'S BERHANU ON OCT. 2 DEMONSTRATION, [...] (C) Summary: CUD leader and Addis mayor-elect Berhanu Nega told Charge Sept. 26 that if the GOE denies permission for the demonstration the opposition has called for Oct. 2, the CUD and UEDF plan to stand down, but instead call an immediate general strike in which people would stay at home. C [...] |
2005-09-28 11:40:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3443 |
ETHIOPIA: LEADING OPPOSITION COALITION BECOMES [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-29 04:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ET ELEC |
| 05ADDISABABA3444 |
ETHIOPIA: CHARGE PRESSES MFA FOR GOE RESPONSE TO [...] (C) Summary: Charge took the opportunity of a summons to the MFA on Sept. 5 to press Deputy Minister Tekeda Alemu on the GOE's response to the current political crisis. Charge argued that while the international community and others urged the opposition to take up its newly-won seats in parlia [...] |
2005-09-29 04:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3599 |
ETHIOPIA: DAS YAMAMOTO DISCUSSES INTERNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Meles told AF DAS Don Yamamoto that Eritrean President Isaias was seeking to prod U.S. action on the border issue through his recent ban on UNMEE helicopter flights. Meles said he did not expect Isaias to attack, but could not afford to allow Ethiopia's election dispute to dra [...] |
2005-10-17 08:38:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO PTER ET ER UN EE BORDER ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3636 |
ETHIOPIA: CHARGE PRESSES MFA FOR GOE RESPONSE TO [...] (C) Summary: Charge took the opportunity of a summons to the MFA on Sept. 5 to press Deputy Minister Tekeda Alemu on the GOE's response to the current political crisis. Charge argued that while the international community and others urged the opposition to take up its newly-won seats in parlia [...] |
2005-10-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3713 |
ETHIOPIA: OPPOSITION CUD SPLINTERING [...] (C) SUMMARY. The CUD, Ethiopia's largest opposition coalition, may be splintering over the question of whether or not to take its seats in Parliament. As of October 25, at least 30 MPs-elect out of 109 had defied the party leadership's decision to boycott Parliament. Lidetu Ayalew, one of t [...] |
2005-10-27 12:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3748 |
ETHIOPIA: CUD "LITE" PROTEST ENDS IN GOE CRACK [...] Summary: (C) At least 11 people were killed, reportedly including two policemen, and a similar number injured when riots broke out in the central Mercato and Piazza districts after the CUDP called for a series of street actions. Rock-throwing youth and security forces squared off in a number o [...] |
2005-11-01 17:33:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ET UNREST ELEC |
| 05ADDISABABA3757 |
ETHIOPIA: FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS DIPLOMATS CUD [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin told members of the Ambassadors Donors Group (ADG), on November 2 that the GOE will not re-open a dialogue with the detained CUD leadership, but left the door open to engaging more moderate opposition members. He assured the donors that the basic h [...] |
2005-11-03 12:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET UNREST ELEC |
| 05ADDISABABA3759 |
ETHIOPIA: ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS SPREAD, AT [...] (C) Summary: Violent street clashes between anti-government demonstrators and squads of security forces spread beyond their initial flashpoints to most parts of the capital Nov. 2-3. Although confrontations occurred both in the vicinity of the Embassy and in Old Airport, where most embassy r [...] |
2005-11-03 16:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3761 |
ETHIOPIA: PRIME MINISTER GIVES HIS VIEW ON [...] (C) I met with Prime Minister Meles on November 2 shortly after an Ambassador Donor Group meeting with the Forign Minister. During this meeting I was able to raise the issues of concern to us: human rights, realease of CUD/P leaders, restrain in the face of protests, and the need to move for [...] |
2005-11-03 16:35:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET UNREST ELEC |
| 05ADDISABABA3804 |
UNREPENTANT MELES: NO TURNING BACK AFTER BLOODY [...] SUMMARY: I asked to meet with Prime Minister Meles to follow up on a promising conversation he had with Chairman Konare of the African Union. Meles said that there was no turning back from the recent crackdown on the opposition CUDP: the jailed leaders would be tried for treason; those demons [...] |
2005-11-09 09:35:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3852 |
VOA'S AMHARIC SERVICE CONDEMNED BY GOE - NEED FOR [...] This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 12. 2. SUMMARY: On November 8, Charge d'Affaires met with local and London-based Voice of America correspondents. She used the meeting to discuss U.S. policy regarding Ethiopia, the role the VOA is playing in Ethiopia at a time when i [...] |
2005-11-15 08:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM KPAO PREL ET VOA UNREST ELEC |
| 05ADDISABABA3867 |
ETHIOPIA: CHARGE PRESSES MFA STATE MINISTER ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Charge took advantage of a meeting with State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu to urge that the GOE to move engage those opposition leaders not imprisoned and prevent further unrest. She called for humanitarian treatment -- and preferably release -- of large numbers [...] |
2005-11-16 12:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET UNREST ELEC |
| 05ADDISABABA3911 |
MELES MORE UPBEAT ON INTERNAL SITUATION AND E/E [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: I met with Prime Minister Meles Saturday afternoon on internal and border issues. Meles rejected the possiblity of CUDP jailed leaders being released, but promised that the democratic process would proceed with a review of Parliamentary rules, NEB -- National E [...] |
2005-11-22 11:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV ET EE BORDER UNREST ELEC |
| 05ADDISABABA3954 |
ETHIOPIA: DIVIDED CUD STRUGGLES TO RECOVER FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOE's comprehensive crackdown on the CUD has left remaining leaders of Ethiopia's largest opposition party fearful, divided and so far paralyzed. At least 25 of 60 supreme council members are in jail; many others are under surveillance and afraid to engage in political activit [...] |
2005-11-28 12:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3991 |
ETHIOPIA: PM MELES TELLS DAS YAMAMOTO THAT GOE IS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-01 11:02:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA3997 |
ETHIOPIA: DAS YAMAMOTO TALKS DEMOCRACY, SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: Visiting DAS Don Yamamoto told Deputy Foreign Minister Tekeda the GOE had to move faster to strengthen key democratic institutions and to release imprisoned CUD opposition leaders. He and Amb. Huddleston highlighted increasing concern about Ethiopian human rights and democracy a [...] |
2005-12-01 13:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ET SOMALIA ELEC |
| 05ADDISABABA4073 |
ETHIOPIA NAMES COMMISSION TO PROBE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In response to calls from the international community and its citizens, the GOE named members of a commission of inquiry to probe the June and November electoral-related violence. Members of the new commission approved on December 6 by Ethiopia's parliament include religious lea [...] |
2005-12-09 10:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA4075 |
PM MELES AND PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION AGREE TO [...] (C) Summary: PM Meles told me in a meeting on Dec. 9 that he would personally participate in the new round of political dialogue with Parliamentary opposition leaders, which would begin with three days of talks Dec. 12-14. While initially limited to leaders of the UEDF and OFDM, the PM hoped t [...] |
2005-12-09 10:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ET ELEC |
| 05ADDISABABA4082 |
ETHIOPIA: THE WAY FORWARD ON POLITICAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Forward movement on democratization in Ethiopia is essential to avoid further political violence as well as a further deterioration in the human rights and political freedoms. An improveme in the political climate also appears to be the most practical and effective way to obtain [...] |
2005-12-09 13:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ET ELEC UNREST |
| 05ADDISABABA4097 |
ETHIOPIA: THE WAY FORWARD ON POLITICAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Forward movement on democratization in Ethiopia is essential to avoid further political violence as well as a further deterioration in the human rights and political freedoms. An improvement in the political climate also appears to be the most practical and effective way to obta [...] |
2005-12-12 14:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ET ELEC UNREST |