Today it is going to be a very busy day for us. First, we are going to have the Foreign Affairs Council. After [this] we are going to have the meeting with the Ministers of the Eastern Partnership. And after [this, we will have the] Jumbo meeting with Foreign and Defense Ministers to start talking about the Strategic Compass. On the Foreign Affairs Ministers: we are going to review the whole set […]
Month: November 2021
Foreign Affairs Council and Eastern Partnership Ministerial: Press remarks by the High Representative Josep Borrell
Good afternoon, we had a long meeting for the Foreign Affairs Council, followed by the Eastern Partnership Ministerial Meeting and before the Jumbo Meeting of Defence Ministers and Foreign Affairs Ministers. Today, we have started with an issue that is certainly currently on all our minds, and that is Belarus. In Belarus, we continue to standing in front of the ongoing hybrid aggression against the European Union’s borders. We are looking […]
Ethiopia: $40 million in aid relief for victims ‘living on a knife-edge’
As the humanitarian crisis grows in Ethiopia’s conflict-affected north, the UN announced on Monday that $40 million in funds have been made available to scale up emergency operations. The UN’s top emergency relief official, Martin Griffiths, said that millions of people in northern Ethiopia are now “living on a knife-edge, as the humanitarian crisis is growing deeper and wider”. After returning from visiting Ethiopia, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator said […]
Secretary-General Appoints Jose Miguel Barreto of Peru United Nations Resident Coordinator in Guatemala
On 14 November, United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres appointed Jose Miguel Barreto of Peru as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Guatemala, with the host Government’s approval. Mr. Barreto brings over 29 years of leadership experience in the areas of sustainable development, humanitarian affairs and peacebuilding to the position. At the United Nations, he most recently served as […]
The Ethiopian Ancient Education System, ‘Abǝnnät Tǝmhǝrt’, Needs Attention
The joint Ethiopian-German project, “Documenting an Ancient Education System in Africa: Abǝnnät Tǝmhǝrt in Ethiopia”, had its official starting on the 1st of October 2021, with the collaboration of the host institute-Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany. The launching of the project on an ancient education system namely, the ‘Abǝnnät Tǝmhǝrt’, intends […]
Kenyan, Ethiopian Leaders Discuss Tigray Conflict Ahead of Blinken Visit
NAIROBI — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs for Kenya on Monday, the first stop on a three-nation tour of Africa. Blinken will meet with Kenya’s president, who just returned from Ethiopia, to discuss that country’s internal war. Some experts fear Ethiopia’s political leadership will not agree to end the yearlong conflict. This week, U.S. […]