Source: European Parliament

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION
with request for inclusion in the agenda for a debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of lawpursuant to Rule 135 of the Rules of Procedure on Ethiopia  (2016/2520(RSP))

Hilde Vautmans, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Petras Auštrevičius, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Marielle de Sarnez, Urmas Paet, Pavel Telička, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Ivo Vajgl, Dita Charanzová, Nedzhmi Ali, Martina Dlabajová, José Inácio Faria, Fredrick Federley, Nathalie Griesbeck, Marian Harkin, Filiz Hyusmenova, Ivan Jakovčić, Petr Ježek, Javier Nart, Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz, Frédérique Ries, Robert Rochefort, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Paavo Väyrynen, Valentinas Mazuronis

on behalf of the ALDE Group

B8 0095/2016
European Parliament resolution on Ethiopia
(2016/2520(RSP))

The European Parliament,

• having regard to its previous resolutions on the post-election crisis and serious human right violation in Ethiopia and in particular those of 7 July 2005 on the human rights situation in Ethiopia, 13 October 2005 on the situation in Ethiopia,
• having regard to the local EU statement on the situation in Ethiopia on 30 July 2014,
• having regard to the joint statement by the HR/VP of the EU and the Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs on 20 October 2015 in Brussels,
• having regard to the statement by the EU External Action spokesperson on 23 December 2015 on recent clashes in the Oromo and Amhara regions in Ethiopia,
• having regard to the Human Rights Watch report on Ethiopia on January 2011,
• having regard to the Cotonou Agreement,
• having regard to the fact that Ethiopia is the fourth largest recipient of EU aid in the world and the EU its most significant trade partner,
• having regard to the African Charter on Human Rights and Peoples of 1981,
• having regard to the International Covenant on Civil Rights, 1966 policies,
• having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948,
• having regard to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia, adopted in 1995, in particular its articles 46 and 47;
• having regard to Article 135 of the Rules,

1. Whereas in Ethiopia, which was one of the poorest countries in the world and is the Africa’s second most populous nation, the ruling party (Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front –EPRDF-) dominated by the Amhara and Tigray ethnic clans has been in power since the overthrow of the military government in 1991; whereas some of the largest ethnic communi¬ties, particularly the Oromo and Somali (Ogaden), have been marginalized by Abyssinians (Amhara/Tigray) with little participation in the political representation, and are subject to regular and violent human rights abuses;

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