Mr. Haile Selassie Getachew (Ethiopia)

Mr. Haile Halefom Secretary General,

This awkward falsehood can easily be contradicted by any map of Eritrea from Italian colonial times to the present, including those that were produced by the Governments of both Emperor Haile Selassie and Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, and by the United Nations before it created the ill fated Ethiopian Eritrean Federation.

Of that I am convinced. The Acting President (interpretation from Arabic) I call next on His Excellency Mr. Haile Weldensae, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Eritrea.

We the peoples of the United Nations united for a better world . The President I now call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Eritrea, His Excellency Mr. Haile Weldensae.

But, with the overthrow of Mengistu Haile Mariam s Marxist Leninist dictatorship in 1991, Ethiopia began to transform itself. Today, it ranks among the five fastest growing economies in the world, and is a bastion of regional stability.

Permanent Representative A 53 499 Annex Statement of Ambassador Haile Menkerios, Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations in exercise of the right of reply to the statement made by the representative of Ethiopia on 2 October 1998

So anyway, she comes here, 1967, she's pregnant, and she comes from Ethiopia that was celebrating its own jubilee at the time under the Emperor Haile Selassie, and she lands months before the Enoch Powell speech, the Rivers of Blood speech.

Meles was certainly both. Ethiopia has undergone a remarkable transformation under his strongman rule since 1991, when his Tigrayan minority group from the country s north came to power with the overthrow of the odious Communist Derg led by Mengistu Haile Mariam (still enjoying a comfortable retirement in Robert Mugabe s Zimbabwe).

The following members were present Kenshiro Akimoto, Meshal Al Mansour, Petru Dumitriu, Paul Ekorong à Dong, David Dutton, Haile Selassie Getachew, Bernardo Greiver, Hassan M. Hassan, Ihor V. Humenny, Eduardo Iglesias, David A. Leis, Vyacheslav A. Logutov, Bernard G. Meijerman, Hae yun Park, Eduardo Ramos, Henrique da Silveira Sardinha Pinto, Ugo Sessi and Wu Gang.

Mr. TADESSE HAILE (Ethiopia) said that, aware of the crucial role of industrial growth in poverty alleviation and the importance of linking agriculture with manufacturing, the Government of Ethiopia had formulated an industrial development strategy placing special emphasis on export led industrialization and aimed at unleashing the potential of micro, small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurship.

Some 30 other cases occurred between 1974 and 1992 after the military Government took power, and concerned mainly, although not exclusively, high ranking officials of Emperor Haile Selassie s Government and members of the Oromo ethnic group, in particular those believed to be involved with the Oromo Liberation Front, or persons accused of involvement with opposition political groups, including the Ethiopian Socialist Movement.

It was alleged that Mammo Wolde was one of some 1,700 former officials who were accused of having participated in genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity between 1974 and 1991 under the government of Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and who have not been formally charged, nor brought before a tribunal and given the opportunity to challenge their virtually indefinite detention.