Who can do this job better than Ethiopia?

Arguments to Ethiopia’s Bid for a United Nations Security Council Non-Permanent Seat.
By Esayas Girmay

Ethiopia, Africa’s oldest independent country, also prides itself on being the founding member of the United Nations Organization in 1945 alongside fifty one other countries of the world. From the African continent, only Egypt, Liberia and South Africa joined Ethiopia in signing the Charter of the United Nations on June 26, 1945 in the San Francisco Conference.

Despite the fact that Ethiopia had only been elected twice as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council in the past, Ethiopia’s record is replete with stories that prove that it had always acted as responsible member of the global community under the auspices of the United Nations and continental and regional organizations such as the African Union and the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD). Ethiopia’s principled stance in its participation and role in such multilateral arenas has, at times, been costly to the country’s immediate advantages. Yet, they have gained the country immense respect and confidence in the eyes of the international community and particularly fellow Africans. In this regard, the unanimous endorsement of Ethiopia as the voice of Africa in global climate change negotiations and the joint selection by Sudan and South Sudan for Ethiopia as a sole provider of peacekeepers in Abyei, are two important but a few cases in point.Read more