Once again, the front is deceiving the international community. Reports of their withdrawal are false and designed to blame federal authorities for hampering humanitarian assistance in the region, State Department spokeswoman Dina Mufti said.
“On the contrary, it is mobilizing a large number of fighters in the areas bordering the Afar and Amhara regions to wage another devastating war,” he said, repeating a statement from the government communications service.
As he explained, “The government is aware of the TPLF’s treacherous intentions to launch another round of attacks if all their demands and based on a fabricated narrative are not met.”
While major efforts are being made to end the war, restore peace and promote unhindered humanitarian access, the group’s plan to launch attacks is alarming, the spokesman said.
He also criticized the open letter the Tigrinya organization sent to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on April 21, urging the international community to “understand the TPLF’s belligerence that is undermining the current peace initiative in the country.”
“If the international community is genuinely concerned about the human rights of the citizens of northern Ethiopia, it must urge this terrorist junta to lay down their arms and leave the occupied territories immediately,” he stressed.
The mufti also said that the bills, named HR.3199 and HR.6600, promoted in the United States to impose sanctions on Ethiopia, “are a paradox because the government is doing everything to achieve peace, including the declaration of an unhindered humanitarian ceasefire. ”
It is measures aimed at putting pressure to end the war that endanger the lives of Ethiopians and do not promote peace, development and democracy in the country. The US government must exclude them, he claimed.
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