Ethiopia hails PM Abiy Ahmed's Nobel Peace Prize win, PMO shares pride

rwegian bel Committee, on Friday, anunced bel Prize for Peace to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia. Reacting to hour,  office of PM released a statement saying that  nation of Ethiopia was proud of   win. tweet released by Prime Minister's office called it a testimony to efforts taken by ir leer to reform country and seek peace with Eritrea. 

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'Nation of Ethiopia is proud' -Ethiopian PM Office

anuncement by Prime Minister's office on Twitter

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Statement of PM office

statement by PM's office said, "Since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed assumed political leership in April 2018 he has me peace, forgiveness, and reconciliation key policy components of his ministration," statement said.

ding furr it said, "At a national level, release of tens of thousands of political prisoners, granting of amnesty for media entities and political parties charged under anti-terrorism law to return from exile and eng peacefully, widening for political parties... are some table milestones. At regional level, ending two-dece stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea has opened up a new dimension of possibilities for co-operation between two countries." statement also pointed to Abiy's attempts to reconcile differences regionally, among countries across Horn of Africa."

However, despite Ethiopian PM's moves for peace, Eritrea deal has been undermined by a lack of tangible progress on critical issues like border demarcation, as per reports.

About Abiy Ahmed:

thiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali became 100th recipient of bel Peace Prize on October 11. Abiy Ahmed, born in 1976 in Beshasha, a town in central Ethiopia, served in Ethiopian army from 1991 to 2010. He got involved in armed struggle against socialist state of Mengistu Haile Mariam after death of his oldest bror. Abiy Ahmed also served in United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Kigali, Rwanda.

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(With inputs from AFP)