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MR ICE: Great, thank you. Good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for joining us. I’d like to welcome you now to this call previewing Secretary Blinken’s virtual trip to Africa, which will take place tomorrow.
Just a quick reminder here at the top: This call is on the record, but it will be embargoed until the call is completed. I would also ask everyone, if they would please, to keep their questions to the trip as much as possible. And also, there will be a transcript of this call posted on the state.gov website this afternoon.
At this point, I’ll go ahead and let you know that we’re going to have Acting Assistant Secretary Bob Godec of the Bureau of African Affairs who will be briefing you today. Assistant Secretary Godec will give an overview of the trip to start, and then he’ll take a few of your questions.
As stated by Spokesperson Ned Price:
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed today to reiterate the United States’ grave concern about the deteriorating humanitarian and human rights crisis in the country, including the growing risk of famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as well as ongoing insecurity in other parts of the country. The Secretary pressed for Ethiopia’s and Eritrea’s commitments to withdraw Eritrean troops from Tigray to be implemented immediately, in full, and in a verifiable manner. In addition, the Secretary noted that Eritrean forces and Amhara regional forces in Tigray are contributing to the growing humanitarian disaster and committing human rights abuses. The Secretary also stressed the need for all parties to the conflict to end hostilities immediately.