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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | November 6, 2023 09:26 AM |
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| From: | Representative Jared G. Solomon |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Urging Congress and the President to Reexamine Ethiopian U.S. Foreign Policy |
| Ethiopia—an East African country home to more than 125 million people—has had a longstanding friendship with the United States. However, Ethiopia is currently facing a critical threat to its democracy: namely, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The Ethiopian people have suffered under Prime Minister Ahmed’s violent and ethnocentric policies that target minorities and infringe upon basic rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and religion. These violent policies have resulted in hundreds of deaths and thousands of arbitrary arrests of religious leaders and members of the press. I will soon be introducing a resolution urging President Biden and the United States Congress to recognize these human rights violations and reexamine its foreign policy towards Ethiopia. It is imperative that the United States take action to end the warfare and persecution of ethnic minorities in Ethiopia. As Pennsylvanians and Americans, we understand the importance of democratic freedoms; it is crucial that we stand up when democracy is threatened. I hope you will join me in support of our Ethiopian friends by signing on as a co-sponsor of this resolution. |
Introduced as HR262