{"id":37029,"date":"2023-10-21T05:31:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T05:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/?p=37029"},"modified":"2023-10-21T05:53:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T05:53:54","slug":"letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/37029\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In your story, titled &#8220;Red Sea takes center stage as Ethiopia looks to assert regional presence,&#8221; published on October 14, 2023, you mistakenly assert that the Ministry of Peace has prepared a document specifically on the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Ministry of Peace has, in fact, prepared three distinct draft documents on national identity, national values, and national interest.<\/p>\n<p>The document concerning national interest outlines several pillars aimed at safeguarding Ethiopia&#8217;s strategic and economic interests. The Red Sea issue is mentioned within the context of the &#8216;national interest&#8217; document, serving as one of the pillars.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, we believe that the article has created the impression that the Ministry has solely focused on the Red Sea as Ethiopia&#8217;s national interest. This is out of context of the document we provided you and should be corrected as: the Ministry has prepared a comprehensive draft document on Ethiopia&#8217;s national interest, wherein the Red Sea is merely mentioned as one component.<\/p>\n<p>FDRE Ministry of Peace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In your story, titled &#8220;Red Sea takes center stage as Ethiopia looks to assert regional presence,&#8221; published on October 14, 2023, you mistakenly assert that the Ministry of Peace has prepared a document specifically on the Red Sea. However, the Ministry of Peace has, in fact, prepared three distinct draft documents on national identity, national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1938],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-letter-to-the-editor"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}