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By Andualem Sisay - Capital
22 August, 2007
German Chancellor Angela Dorothea Merkel is expected to visit Ethiopia in October, sources told Capital.
During here visit, Chancellor Merkel is expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and other government officials, according to the source. Her visit is also expected to boost the close socio-economic and political ties that exist between the two countries.
Ethiopia has been visited by numerous Heads of State and Government recently, including late 2006 official visits by Merkel's predecessor, Gerhardt Shroeder and PM. Tayib Erdogan of Turkey. The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and the Foreign Minister of India are among the foreign dignitaries to have visited Ethiopia in 2007.
Merkel's first foreign trip took place on the day she was sworn in as Chancellor, when she went to Paris for a meeting with the then French president, Jacques Chirac. Merkel made her first visit to the Middle East as President-in-office of the European Council on April 1, 2007.