In a multi-featured and ever-altering world peculiarly characterized by swelling strains and multifarious geopolitical drifts, setting up effective diplomacy requires skill, expertise and fertile mind that would help accommodate and assess to and fro thereby coming up with amicable bond with neighboring countries and beyond.
Cognizant of the fact that efforts to promote diplomacy involve strengthening relations, fostering cooperation, and finding peaceful resolutions to disagreements, if any, through various means, Ethiopia continues running color blind diplomacy so long as the passages are of for its national interest and socio-economic wellbeing. Since diplomats play a crucial role in building relationships and advancing national interests via improving relations and creating mutual understanding, Ethiopia has all the time embarked on these personalities to have a peaceful and stable nation, which has appealing rapports with countries of all sides.
Needless to state, enhancing diplomatic relations among nations and adjusting platforms for open dialogue, close discussion and setting up cordial ties among/between them is of paramount importance in seeking pathways for constructive and lucrative ties. Ethiopia has been entertaining programs that would potentially equip future leaders and current policymakers with essential skills in negotiation and diplomacy, fostering a new generation committed to peaceful solutions.
Hence, this time around Ethiopia’s efforts for effective diplomacy have been bedecked with myriads of initiatives targeting at addressing the urgent need for operative diplomatic engagement as a means to boost, cooperation, prevent conflict and avert confrontation.
Yes, all Ethiopia’s efforts, particularly for the last four to five years, have been aiming at establishing a sustainable framework for fostering diplomatic solutions to conflicts, promoting perpetual peace across nations of the region and even to provide others with a bounty out of peace and effective diplomacy.
For instance, a successful diplomatic work has made the issue of Ethiopia’s access to the sea an international agenda and its legitimate quest is being widely recognized. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, of late, underscored that Ethiopia’s diplomatic reform agenda has been bearing fruits by offering a clear and forward-looking vision for the future of the country.
As learnt from the Premier, Ethiopia is home to many experienced and wise professionals who have served the nation with uniqueness. The point here is knowledge must be activated and shared in meaningful ways. The emerging diplomats in the country are undergoing targeted trainings both at home and abroad, with a sharpened focus on strengthening economic diplomacy, technological literacy, and multilingual competence thereby much more benefiting the nation.
Of course, the country would evolve into a more capable, modern, and responsive institutions for the purpose of embracing the demands of a rapidly shifting international order through lucrative rapport.
No doubt, country’s foreign policy is rooted in a principled strategy that prioritizes neighboring countries and entertains a win-win fashion. Yes, Ethiopia is actively collaborating with its neighbors in key areas such as infrastructure development, trade and investment, peace and security, among others. A number of Ethiopian nationals stranded in difficult conditions across Africa and the Middle East have been successfully repatriated over the past nine months as it is entertaining citizen-focused diplomacy. Such a bold move is unequivocally an outcome of good diplomacy.
In sum, Ethiopia has been actively pursuing intensive diplomatic activities to safeguard its national interest amid the shifting global geopolitical landscape. To this end, efforts have been made to strengthen bilateral and/or multilateral relations with neighboring countries through high-level visits, joint commission meetings, political consultations and ambassadorial rapports. These ways are of significantly useful in cementing Ethiopia’s relations with many nations of the world.
Besides, the steps Ethiopia has trekked represent a proactive and comprehensive approach to fostering diplomatic solutions for perpetual regional, continental and even global peace. By and large, Ethiopia’s diplomacy under the PP regime has been flourishing!
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD TUESDAY 10 JUNE 2025
