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Securing Access to the sea by occupying the strip of land from Assab to the historic Axumite port of Adulis has to be one of the agenda items during the peace discussion between TDF and Ethiopian Defence Force generals. We know very well that General Tsadican has similar plan and history has provided the opportunity to get back our sea ports. Isaias has been allowed to mess with Ethiopia for long and this time he must get a strategic punishment for all the destruction he brought to Tigray and Ethiopia. # Red Sea Access!

I support this idea of access to the sea. However, Ethiopia should not only have a strip of The Red Sea, but a large Coastal Sea Shore for commerce, tourism and military purposes. Thus reviewing the Wuchale Treaty we find all The Southern Part of The Red Sea extension from Mereb River, should be under Tigray and Ethiopia. ThusTigray gets it's own port and Asseb could be used by Ethiopia. Asseb does not belong to Afar. It is located in Afar Regional State. If review Wuchale Treaty posted below. we should be able to get The Southern Red Sea part extension to Mereb River.
"Treaty of Wuchale (or, Treaty of Ucciale; in Italian, Trattato di Uccialli) was a treaty signed by King Menelik II of Shewa, later the Emperor of Ethiopia with Count Pietro Antonelli of Italy in the town of Wuchale, Ethiopia, on 2 May 1889. The treaty stated that the regions of Bogos, Hamasien, Akkele Guzay, and Serae were part of the Italian colony of Eritrea and is the origin of the Italian colony and modern state of Eritrea. Per the Treaty, Italy promised financial assistance and military supplies.

The contents of Article 3 of the treaty state the following:[1]

Art. 3. To remove any ambiguity about the limits of the territories over which the two Contracting Parties shall exercise the rights of sovereignty, a special committee composed of two Italian delegates and two Ethiopians will trace on the ground with appropriate signs a permanent boundary line whose benchmarks are established as follows:
a) The line of the plateau will mark the Italian-Ethiopian border;
b) Starting from the region Arafali, Halai, Saganeiti and Asmara are villages in the Italian border;
c) Adi Adi Nefas and Joannes will be on the side of Bogos in the Italian border;
d) From Adi Joannes a straight line extended from east to west will mark the border between Italy and Ethiopia.

Disputes over Article 17 regarding the conduct of foreign affairs led to the First Italo–Ethiopian War. The Italian version stated that Ethiopia was obliged to conduct all foreign affairs through Italian authorities, in effect making Ethiopia an Italian protectorate, while the Amharic version gave Ethiopia considerable autonomy, with the option of communicating with third powers through the Italians.[2] The misunderstanding, according to the Italians, was due to the mistranslation of a verb, which formed a permissive clause in Amharic and a mandatory one in Italian.[3]"