Thank you "Dr Meles Andom" for posting the link to the historical photos. Ambassador Meles was a fascinating Ethiopian historical person. Thank you for sharing the photos in: http://www.andom.se/
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Please go to this site.
Interesting historical pictures.
The brother of general Aman M Andom :
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As the Ethiopian and Egyptian governments begin playing diplomatic tussle over the Abay wenz Nile river, and the Ethiopians start to divert their God given river and the greedy Arab Egyptians summon the Ethiopian ambassador to Egypt, here is a lesson of a profile in courage of a brave Ethiopian ambassador to Egypt in the 1950s and 1960s.
He is a man who mastered five languages very fluently on top of his diplomatic skills and his encyclopedic knowledge of the Middle East history and politics. This man spoke and wrote fluently Tigrinya, Amharic, English, Italian and Arabic.
At one time, the president of Egypt's chief foreign policy adviser, Muhamed Muhamed Fai'q, who later became his Foreign Minister told President Gamal Abdel Nasser to expel this brave Ethiopian and Gamal personally asked Haileselassie during the 1963 inauguration of the OAU to replace this man, the emperor decided to keep him there. This man remained in Cairo as Ethiopia's ambassador until the 1974 revolution and continued to warn Nasser not to meddle in Ethiopian affairs.
His name is ambassador Meles Andom.
Here is the ambassador in his own words:
[/quote]Gamal Abdel Nasser had ... asked whether a military alliance between Egypt, the Sudan and Ethiopia would not be in their common interest. "We drink of the same water," he said. Ethiopian Ambassador Meles Andom had replied bluntly, to the following effect: " You claim to be an Arab and to lead the Arab world but you interfere with the affairs of your Arab neighbors and have tried to cause trouble for the governments of Iraq, Libya, Lebanon and Sudan. We Ethiopians are not Arabs. We are Africans and black. We do not belong to your world although like you we drink the water of the Nile. You have tried to interfere in our affairs also and make trouble for His Majesty. ... Secondly, you may have military objectives. We do not know exactly what they may be but we have no confidence in the strength of your armed forces, and we are strongly against the Communists who arm you. For these reasons your proposal is unacceptable and we are not prepared to discuss it even."