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Ethiopia–Qatar relations are foreign relations betweenEthiopia andQatar.
Ethiopia abruptly broke diplomatic ties with Qatar in April 2008, accusing "the output of its media outlets" of "direct and indirect assistance to terrorist organizations," according to anEthiopian Foreign Ministry statement. The statement further alleged that "Qatar has left no stone unturned to cause harm to Ethiopia's national security".[1] In an interview withCommittee to Protect Journalists that November, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wahid Belay said the statement referred to theAl-Jazeera news channel based in Qatar, which had aired a critical series on the plight of civilians in theOgaden, a part of theSomali Region.[2] TheQatar Foreign Ministry responded with a statement in which they "expressed surprise" at Ethiopia's actions, denying the accusations, and "called on the Ethiopian Government to refrain from involving the State of Qatar in its rifts, recalling that the Ethiopian Government has previously made similar claims but the State of Qatar preferred not to reply out of the hope that the Ethiopian Government would stop such wrong behaviours."[3]
In 2018,Samia Gutu was appointed Ambassador of Ethiopia to Qatar.[4]
In 2005, the countries signed a technical and economic cooperation agreement.[5]
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