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07 February 2007
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will be in Turkey between Feb. 8-10 to sign cooperative agreements in agriculture and tourism.
The first visit by an Ethiopean leader to Turkey at the prime ministerial level, Zenawi will also explore areas of partnership with Turkish businessmen in Istanbul.
Zenawi will be received by both Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, where they will discuss regional and international developments. Bilateral relations with Ethiopia have accelerated since Erdoğan's visit to Addis Ababa in 2001.
Ethiopia, which closed down its embassy in Ankara in 1984 due to financial difficulties, reopened the mission in 2006.
Supporting a "strong developmental state," market reforms in Africa at the urging of Western have not succeeded, Zenawi said in an interview published in the Financial Times on Tuesday. According to Zenawi, "neo-liberal" reforms pushed by the World Bank and other institutions in Africa have failed to "generate the kind of growth they sought."
Source: Ankara Today's Zaman