The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, has expressed his satisfaction that the Ethiopian Authorities have granted conditional release to the two former members of the Mengistu regime who have been living in the Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa for almost 30 years.
This puts an end – in the desired direction – to a long-standing situation that began in 1991, when the Italian Government granted hospitality, in the Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa, to the two former members of the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia (DERG) for strictly.
