Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Second Secretary Elias Melaku Feleke
Ethiopia has been a member of the UN since November 13, 1945. Elias Melaku Feleke is a Second Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Ethiopia to the UN. The following is excerpted from Second Secretary Feleke’s statement during UN General Assembly debate on July 28, 2010. My delegation abstained in the voting on this resolution on the human right to water and sanitation, but not because Ethiopia believes that access to water for all human beings is neither a noble idea nor their natural right. However, although the delegation of Ethiopia requested the inclusion of a paragraph taken from the…
