June 16, 2013
ESAT News June 15, 2013

The
Ethiopian opposition political party, Unity for Democracy and Justice
(UDJ), has released a press release titled “A Party committed to use
everything for political consumption, endangers a country’s
sovereignty”. The Party’s presser urged Ethiopia and Egypt to cease
making bellicose statements, stop spreading propaganda that could harm
the people to people relations of the two countries and work for a
diplomatic relation and focus on round table discussions.
UDJ
said Ethiopia has a natural right to use Abay River. It added both
countries should stop using the Dam and the river as a means of calming
down internal political tensions. It also called for the immediate start
of a “national consensus”. UDJ also accused the Ethiopian government of
using the