RUSSIAN & EAST GERMAN
DOCUMENTS ON THE HORN OF
AFRICA
, 1977-78
RUSSIAN & EAST GERMAN DOCUMENTS
ON THE HORN OF
AFRICA
, 1977-78
ABBREVIATIONS USED
IN THE DOCUMENTS
APRF—Archive of the President of the
Russian Federation
CC—Central Committee
CPSU—Communist Party of the
Soviet Union
ELF-RC—Eritrean Liberation Front (Revolutionary Command)
EPLF—Eritrean People’s Liberation Front
EPRP—Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party
EDU—Ethiopian Democratic
Union
FTAI—
French
Territory
of the
Afars and Issas
, i.e.
Djibouti
MEISON—All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement
MFA—Ministry of Foreign Affairs
OAU—Organization of African Unity
PDRY—People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, i.e. South
Yemen
PMAC—Provisional Military Administrative Council (of
Ethiopia
);
the Derg
PRC—People’s Republic of
China
SAPMO-BArchSA—Stiftung “Archiv der Parteien und
Massenorgan-isationen der SED” im
Bundesarchiv
,
Berlin
SDR—Somali Democratic Republic
SED—Socialist Unity Party of
East Germany
SRSP—Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
TsKhSD—Center for the Storage of Contemporary Documentation,
Moscow
UAR—United
Arab
Republic
;
Egypt
UN—United Nations
UNGA—United Nations General Assembly
Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Counselor-
Minister in
Ethiopia
S. Sinitsin
with Political Counselor of the
U.S.
Embassy in
Ethiopia
Herbert Malin,
2 February 1977
From the diary of SECRET, Copy No. 2
S.Y. Sinitsin
4 February 1977
Ser. No. 41
NOTES OF CONFERENCE
with Advisor for Political Issues
of
USA
Embassy in
Ethiopia
HERBERT MALIN
2 February 1977
I met today with Malin in the USA Embassy by preliminary
arangement. The following points of interest were discussed.
Concerning the situation in
Ethiopia
, Malin noted the tension of
the situation caused by the activation of forces opposed to the Derg,
especially in the northwestern region of the country which is siding
with the
Sudan
. He directed attention to the “harsh
pronouncements” of the Chairman of the PMAC, Teferi Banti, of
January 29 and 30 of this year, addressed to the leaders of the
Sudan
and
Somalia
, who are pursuing an anti-Ethiopian policy, as well as
to his call for a union of “all progressive and patriotic forces” for the
defense of “the revolution and the fatherland,” in this connection not
mentioning the anti-government leftist organization “Ethiopian
People’s Revolutionary Party” (EPRP). However, Malin feels that
the EPRP will hardly agree to support the call of Teferi Banti, due to
its disagreement with the policy of the Derg.Click for more
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