Please follow this link to my Question to HMG about Ethiopa and Eritrea, and the Horn of Africa, which was answered by Lord Howell of Guildford.
Encouraging settlement between Ethiopia and Eritrea
by Lord Hylton • • 5 Comments
Please follow this link to my Question to HMG about Ethiopa and Eritrea, and the Horn of Africa, which was answered by Lord Howell of Guildford.
I suppose its a sign of the times. Those counties that were historically annexed prior to the establishment of modern Human Rights now find they are able to express a self determination that in earlier times would have been brutally repressed. What asset does Eritrea have that Ethiopia covets; perhaps King Solomon’s mines?
Ref: Country Studies: Ethiopia
http://countrystudies.us/ethiopia/125.htm
Presumably the name Selassie, Haile, is a tribal name of some sort, since the world champion distance running athlete (Gabrielle) also takes that name.
His earnings must run in to a couple of million or more by now, so he is one asset, although he may have been running for Kenya those days before his retirement.
Since about £50 may pay for one subsistent person for a year he must support quite a few people himself.
The power of a modern nation state to express itself is merely the power of democracy, which may not be much use if there are international corporations working within its borders, taking everything out and putting nothing in.
In the case of the Nation states of Eritrea and Ethiopia there may be very little to remove, and their democracy may be their only
asset, not a mean value in itself, but its only one.
Oil has been discovered in Ethiopia recently…. or is it Eritrea, but as always the PAs(Production Agreements) do very little to favour the nation state.
Gareth you might regard the territorial aspirations of Ethiopia as on a par with Afghanistan. Pakistan annexed Baluchistan depriving Afghanistan of access to the sea. Ethiopia is similarly land locked so access to the sea would definitely be on this republic’s agenda. If you look at the contents link ‘Ethiopia in World War II’ the last paragraph says:
“In addition, the emperor made territorial demands, but these met with little sympathy from the British. Requests for the annexation of Eritrea, which the Ethiopians claimed to be racially, culturally, and economically inseparable from Ethiopia, were received with an awareness on the part of the British of a growing Eritrean sense of separate political identity. Similarly, Italian Somaliland was intended by the British to be part of “Greater Somalia”; thus, the emperor’s claims to that territory were also rejected.”
If you then look at the index http://countrystudies.us/ the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress seems not to have a link for Eritrea. Anecdotally, you could say that US foreign policy has Eritrea annexed to Ethiopia contrary to British foreign policy. Hence, the ministers somewhat bland reply. In an earlier time the minister might have said “We will send the Redcoats to Eritrea to defend our foreign policy”. Our being the US 51st state certainly has changed things?
Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 28 March 2012, c262W)
It is clear that this reference has nothing to do with “Hansard Society” a charitable pressure group, of indeterminate political preferences.
“Since about £50 will pay for one subsistent person for a year”
I would like too carry this forward into the more
“longest-term-sustainworthy-‘One-Human-Living'” issue,
that I find I am continually having to attempt to spark-up an ongoing public-discussion and eventual world-governance tackling and resolution of;
OK ?