{"id":47790,"date":"2022-04-29T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T22:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47790"},"modified":"2022-04-29T15:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T22:32:19","slug":"building-on-steps-to-end-the-conflict-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47790","title":{"rendered":"Building on Steps to End the Conflict in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>04\/29\/2022 06:05 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>Millions of people in Ethiopia continue to face acute food insecurity and extreme hunger as a direct result of conflict.\u00a0 We are encouraged that the government of Ethiopia and regional authorities in Tigray and Afar have taken steps in recent weeks to enable the delivery of desperately needed food aid to war-affected communities.\u00a0 We urge the parties to accelerate, uphold, and expand these efforts to ensure, as President Biden has said, immediate, sustained, and unimpeded humanitarian access to all Ethiopians affected by this conflict.\u00a0 The United States stands ready to continue to assist in this life-saving endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has taken a series of encouraging actions that have laid the groundwork for an end to conflict, including lifting the state of emergency, releasing some political prisoners and detainees, and, in parallel with Tigrayan authorities, declaring an effective cessation of hostilities.\u00a0 We are similarly encouraged that Tigrayan forces have withdrawn most of their forces from Afar and have reiterated their commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflict.\u00a0 We now urge the parties, as my team and I have in recent days, to seize the opportunity to advance a negotiated ceasefire, including the necessary security arrangements, and call for the restoration of essential services in Tigray on an urgent basis.<\/p>\n<p>The United States remains committed to a unified, prosperous, and sovereign Ethiopia and to supporting an inclusive political process to heal the country\u2019s divisions and provide peace and security for all Ethiopians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_9165757964629191626mail_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04\/29\/2022 06:05 PM EDT Antony J.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47791,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47790\/revisions\/47791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}