#Ethiopia: Blinken speaks of ‘immediately implementing’ #Pretoria agreement in phone call with Abiy
Sec. Blinken “underscored the importance of immediately implementing the cessation of hostilities agreement, including withdrawal of all foreign forces and concurrent disarmament of the Tigrayan forces.”
The #Nairobi Declaration on the “Disarmament of #Tigray armed combatants” stated that “disarmament of heavy weapons will be done concurrently with the withdrawal of foreign and non-#ENDF forces from the region.”
Despite the verification reports by the #AU_MVCM however, the complete withdrawal of Eritrean and non-ENDF forces from Tigray, which falls under the responsibility of the federal government, remained illusive.
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