ETHIOPIA: CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS, POLICE AND ARMY OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT MINISTERS HOLD A THREE DAY SEMINAR TO DISCUSS "THE PROGRESS OF THE ETHIOPIAN REVOLUTION"

Record ID: 230544

  • Title: ETHIOPIA: CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS, POLICE AND ARMY OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT MINISTERS HOLD A THREE DAY SEMINAR TO DISCUSS "THE PROGRESS OF THE ETHIOPIAN REVOLUTION"
  • Date: 28th December 1975
  • Summary: 1. SV Lt. Col. Atnafu Abate, 2nd Vice Chairman entering former Parliament bldg. with Minister of Interior 0.06 2. SV PAN OVER Delegates listening to Vice Chairman's speech 0.24 3. SV & CU Vice Chairman speaking 0.38 4. SV PAN Military chiefs listening 0.50 5. SCU Vice Chairman speaking and delegates applaud 1.02 6. SV Vice Chairman and other officers leaving hall 1.09 Initials BB/2320 JA/AW/BB/2335 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th January 1976 12:00
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  • Location: ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
  • Country: Ethiopia
  • Reuters ID: LVA1CEN1E5F2DT296CUQPH62XLZP
  • Story Text: The Second Vice-Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council of Ethiopia, Lieutenant Colonel Atnafu Abate, said the "Ethiopian Revolution" was "gaining momentum every day and was well on the road to victory" on Thursday (25 December).

    Lt. Col. Abate was speaking at a seminar for chief administrators, police commissioners and representatives of "development-oriented ministries".

    The three day seminar is being held in Addis Ababa at the headquarters of the Civilian Advisory Body in the former Parliament Building.

    The second Vice Chairman told these attending the seminar that Ethiopia needed to find speedy solutions "to the many problems now facing the country".

    He said such solutions should come from a "thorough study of the nature of the society and the difficulties confronting it".

    Lt. Col. Abate warned, however, that "any hastily produced solution without proper diagnosis of the causes was bound to be counter productive".

    The former Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, was deposed after revolution in September 1974.

    Since then the country has been ruled by a Provisional Military Council.

    SYNOPSIS: The second Vice-Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council of Ethiopia, Lieutenant Colonel Atnafu Abate, was amongst the country's leaders who attended a recent seminar on "the progress of the Ethiopian Revolution". The three day seminar was held at the headquarters of the Civilian Advisory Body in the former Parliament Building in the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.

    Lieutenant Colonel Abate told the chief government administrators, police commissioners and representatives of "development-oriented ministries" attending the seminar that "the Ethiopian Revolution was gaining momentum every day and was well on the road to victory".

    The Second Vice-Chairman said Ethiopia needed to find speedy solutions "to the many problems now facing the country". He said such solutions should come from a "thorough study of the nature of the society and the difficulties facing it". However, Lieutenant Colonel Abate warned the delegates that "any hastily produced solution without produced diagnosis of the causes was bound to be counter productive."
    Ethiopia has been ruled by a Provisional Military Council since a revolution in September nineteen seventy four.
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