Aften posten Norwegian newspaper
25 August 2012
Conservatives and the Progress Party believes that Norway should cut aid to Ethiopia.
25 August 2012
Conservatives and the Progress Party believes that Norway should cut aid to Ethiopia.
- When you give such large sums, they will contribute greatly to support the regime, Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide, Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party and chairman of Parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee.
She has repeatedly taken up the government's Ethiopian support in Parliament, and believes that Norway must examine closely the aid and stop all or parts of it - so did Norway including Uganda last year . At the same time she points out that Ethiopia make progress on the Millennium Development Goals to combat poverty, and that the country is strategically important in East Africa.
Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (Right)
PHOTO: Stein J. Bjorge (archive)
- Is not cooperate with Ethiopia is important precisely because of this?
- No, not at any price. There are ways to do it on the.Norway gives directly to the Ethiopian government, while Sweden has reduced its contribution considerably and is now working only through organizations.There is a possibility to avoid that money goes to the regime, she says, and denies the government's declarations that they are actively working with human rights in Ethiopia.
- Our criticism is that Norway does not. On the contrary. Solheim (formerly the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim, journalist. Note) did anything to brag about Meles up in the clouds. The Swedes have been clear, and Norway must also begin to be.
- Laughing by Norway
FrP aid policy spokesman Peter N. Myhre visited Ethiopia in the year before last, and says he is in despair over the situation in the country.
- Ethiopia is one of Africa's worst dictatorships. One can well appreciate the economic development, but it's a tiny elite at the top - mostly Mr. Zenawi's friends - who get pleasure from it. What I have recommended in Parliament is that we must step up to help the Zenawi regime can show improvement.Zenawi laughing by Norwegian authorities in their naivety just keeps pouring in with money. There is nothing to suggest that he bothered to care about the Norwegian authorities say, he said.
- Can not commitment give Norway a greater opportunity to influence?
- Here is the power and grandeur. As long as millions continue to flock to the regime, the motivation to take human rights seriously and demokratiutvkling completely marginal.
Myhre, comparing the situation in Ethiopia with the civil war-ravaged Syria.
- Zenawi is Africa's answer to the Assad regime. There is reason for concern, for the exile community - including Norway - demand of the international community that something must be done. If there is civil war in a country with nearly 100 residents milllioner, we fear the worst, he says.
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