Ethiopia’s Suspension from AGOA Part of Conspiracy to Weaken Ethiopia: A Veteran Politician

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Addis Ababa November 5/2021 (ENA) The United States government decision to suspend Ethiopia from Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is part of conspiracy being orchestrated by some members of the international community to weakening the government and people of the country, the veteran Ethiopian politician Dr. Aregawi Berhe said.

The primary objectives of AGOA are to promote increased trade and investment between the United States and Sub Saharan African countries and increase access and opportunities for US investors and businesses in SSA countries.

According to official sourness, AGOA used to give Ethiopia opportunity to export half of the manufactured products and increased export by ten folds between 2000 and 2020.

Removing Ethiopia from the preferential agreement will affect the livelihoods of more than 200.000 low-income families, mostly, women who have got nothing to do with the conflict.

Tigray Democratic Party (TDP) Chairman Aregawi Berhe told ENA today that the measure is unjustifiable that aims at weakening the government and people of Ethiopia by endangering the overall economic activities of the nation.

The measure is also against the very objectives of the initiative being promoted by the US itself, he added.

The US government’s decision to suspend Ethiopia from AGOA is part of the ongoing conspiracy made by some members of the international community to force the government of Ethiopia bow to foreign interests, and endanger the sovereignty of the country.

However, he said that this would not be possible as the whole Ethiopians have now been standing together to repel the conspiracies being orchestrated by TPLF and its western allies.

Noting that the current government in Ethiopia come to power following a democratically held elections,  Aregawi said that “ no foreign powers have the right to dictate the Ethiopian government by exerting unjustifiable economic pressures.”

“ the overall objective of the sanction is to weaken the government in Ethiopia. It aims at creating a pupate government that works to fulfill the interest of external powers. One of their instruments is to suspend the country from AGOA. But this would never be achieved. Because the whole people in Ethiopia have now accepting the need to be independent in all aspects including economic development,” Aregawi elaborated.   

Ethiopian News Agency
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