Ethiopia, Aug. 18 -- August 17/ 2021 (Walta) - Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Demeke Mekonen, has discussed with US Special Envoy to Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, today.

The DPM said that Ethiopia and America have cultivated a long-standing diplomatic relation based on mutual interest.

He briefed the special the envoy how the terrorist Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) attack on Ethiopia's National Defense Northern Command brewed the current security crisis in Tigray Region.

TPLF has been designated as terror group by Ethiopian House of Peoples Representatives. The US designated TPLF as terrorist in 1976 while the group was an insurgent group operating in Tigray. That was way before TPLF captu...