Press Statement

EPM/EDP-EPP Joint Committee Meeting

9 July, 2009

On 9 July 2009, delegations of the Eritrean People’s Movement (EPM) and the Joint leadership Committee (JLC) of the Eritrean Democratic Party (EDP) and the Eritrean People’s Party (EPP) met in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to review the accord reached between the three chairmen last February in Frankfurt, Germany.

 

This meeting of EPM leadership with JLC delegation upgraded the existing accord and underlined the fact that there remains no stumbling block for proceeding for merger into a unified party of these three Eritrean opposition organizations.

 

The outcome of the meeting shall be circulated for the ongoing discussions of the total membership of the three parties whose recommendations are expected to reach the respective leaderships by 31 July 2009.

 

Meeting participants from the EPM side were:

1.    Adhanom Ghebremariam, Chairman

2.    Mekonnen Haile, Vice-Chairman

3.    Teklit Habtai, head of Organizational and Public Affairs

4.    Asmelash Ghebrezghi, head of Information.

 

Meeting participants representing the JLC were:

1.    Woldeyesus Ammar, JLC Chairman

2.    Mesfin Hagos, member of JLC committee for Organizational and Public Affairs

3.    Mengisteab Asmerom, member of JLC committee for Information

4.    Haj Abdelnur Haj, EDP leadership member

5.    Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, member of EPP Secretariat

6.    Amanuel Hagos, EDP leadership member.

 

Victory to the Unification Process!

Memory and Glory to our Martyrs!

Dawn to PFDJ Dictatorship!

 


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