The Pretoria Peace Agreement signed between the federal government of Ethiopia and TPLF proves Ethiopia’s capability to resolve disputes through peaceful means, bolster coexistence as well as ensure sustainable peace and other related aspects.
It should be borne in mind that following the war that lasted for two years in the northern part of the country, the region persistently went from the frying pan into the fire and moved into uncharted waters. However, through the commitment of the federal government, peace was set in motion prevailing in every corner of the country after the agreement at the earliest possible time.
Although some worrywarts pulled out all the stops to belittle the peace accord under the auspicious of the African Union, all their efforts went for nothing.
In actual fact, the peace accord has chartered a fresh perspective in all areas of the country settling differences in a calm and respectful manner. it needs to be taken into consideration that in the aftermath of the peace accord the delivery of humanitarian aid strengthened in the conflict affected areas of the northern part of the country has been worth mentioning.
It is important to emphasize that the government in a number of situations brought to light its approach to comply with the rules and regulations of the African Union (AU) led peace agreement. The country’s stance demonstrates its self-reliance in Africa’s competence to get to the bottom of its quandaries with success has been pointing in the right direction.
The Ministry of Peace and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church announced to jointly work on national peace building activities in the country, according to information obtained from a local media.
The Ministry of Peace and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church have recently had an acquaintance event. On the occasion, the Minister of Peace, Mohammed Idris and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Patriarch, Abune Mathias discussed ways to strengthening the ongoing peace building efforts in the country.
The Holy Patriarch confirmed that the church will work more diligently and closely with the government than ever before on peace building activities. The patriarch also expressed his appreciation and respect for the minister coming to the Patriarchate for acquaintance and discussion.
The Minister, for his part, appealed to the church for national peace prayers to strengthen prevailing peace building efforts and tackle existing challenges, drawing upon the church’s extensive and well-established experience in peace and state building.
He further confirmed that the government will take whatever price for peace building efforts, pledging his ministry’s dedication to work in cooperation and support with all religious leaders and institutions.
Even though the whole kit and caboodle went from the deep end to the shallow end, the northern part of the country in the present climate has jumpstarted leading a peaceful life and breathing a sigh of relief. The colossal move of the federal government without the interference of any third party proves the unwavering commitment of the government to ensure peace and tranquility.
It is common knowledge that the country has sustained moving forward putting in place the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration process. On account of the promising strides of the peace agreement, the war-torn areas have started attaining the desired goal within the shortest possible time.
It should be remembered that some groups moved heaven and earth to put a damper on the extremely significant initiative and promising development of the Pretoria peace agreement.
Whenever conflict arises among the various Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples of Ethiopia, they put their conflict resolution mechanisms in place to resolve quandaries and conundrums. As peace is the pillar of development, every Tom, Dick, and Harry should do everything they can to ensure peace and tranquility in every square inch of the country.
The Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission (ENDC) has been discharging a broad range of undertakings with the purpose of resolving differences. It is anticipated that the upcoming national dialogue for sure will resolve backlogs of predicaments surfacing in some parts of the country at the earliest possible juncture.
It is recalled that speaking to local media, ENDC Commissioner Yonas Adaye (PhD) in the recent past said the commission is working through streamlined home-grown knowledge, culture, and inclusive dialogue frameworks. The commissioner has also mentioned that it is facilitating and employing all the way out to table any of the militants’ issues based on their own consent either in the form of face-to-face or via their representatives.
Unless each and every segment of the society works in close collaboration to ensure peace and tranquility achieving the pursued objective will be an impossible mission.
Apart from assisting the progress of the rebuilding of numerous services comprising electric supply, telecom, air transport, and banking among others, the inhabitants of the area set in motion a sigh of relief. Notwithstanding the fact that a lot has been said with regard to AU’s capability in brokering the peace agreement, the continental bloc proved complainers wrong in ensuring peace. In point of fact, AU’s role is worthy of immense admiration and overwhelming adoration.
On account of the positive moves of the peace accord, some worrywarts have sustained confounding the international community as a whole with quite a lot of unreliable information that do not demonstrate the current circumstances and the ongoing realities.
BY ADDISALEM MULAT
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD SATURDAY 28 DECEMBER 2024
