Addis Ababa: The Ethiopia-U.S. bilateral relationship has been one of the United States’ longest and closest in sub-Saharan Africa, a joint stamen issued after the bilateral meeting held today between Ethiopia’s Foreign Affairs State Minister, Mesganu Arga and U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Ervin Jose Massinga.
The statement recalled that on December 27, 1903 Emperor Menelik II and U.S. envoy Robert Skinner signed the first Ethiopia-U.S. bilateral treaty, commencing 120 years of friendship and partnership between the two nations.
Since then, the joint statement indicated that the Ethiopia-U.S. bilateral relationship has been one of the United States’ longest and closest in sub-Saharan Africa.
The two countries share deep people-to-people bonds that ground our 120 years of relations in an enduring spirit of respect, mutual understanding, and our shared aspirations for peace, security, and economic development, it added.
That spirit has propelled cooperation in health, education, agriculture and food security, and science and the environment that continue to benefit the people of both nations, the statement further pointed out.
“Today, State Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Mesganu Arga and U.S. Ambassador Ervin Jose Massinga met to discuss how to showcase this significant anniversary throughout the coming year as a milestone of our longstanding bilateral relations and a moment to reflect on how to strengthen the bilateral relationship for the next 120 years,” it added.
