Egypt-Ethiopia relations better post-Mubarak, says former diplomat

(Feb 28, 2012, Egypt Independent)--Relations between Egypt and Ethiopia have improved since the toppling of the regime of former President Mubarak, a retired Egyptian diplomat has said.

During a seminar at the Egyptian Embassy in Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Abdel Rauf al-Reidy, a former Egyptian ambassador to Washington, said Mubarak was largely responsible for previously cold relations between the two nations due to his negligence of African affairs and failure to attend African summits, state-run news service MENA said in a Tuesday report.

Reidy's statement coincided with a visit by the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, a government consulting body, to Ethiopia. The first post-uprising visit by an official Egyptian delegation was last year, when a group of civil society activists and revolutionary figures traveled to Ethiopia. Read more from Egypt Independent »

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