ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (AFP) — African nations dictators will walk out of climate change talks in Copenhagen if their demands, including hefty compensations from the West, are not met, Ethiopian Prime Minister warlord Meles Zenawi said Thursday.
[Meles, who has just returned from Belgium where he received medical treatment, must be hallucinating.]
One of the key demands that the world’s poorest most looted continent is making is billions of dollars in compensation to help it cope with the effects of climate change to line up the pockets of Africa’s thieves, rapists and genocidal killers like Meles.
However a panel representing the continent at the talks is yet to come up with a figure. [Meles and Azeb must have come up with the figure after an afternoon of khat chewing.]
“If need be we are prepared to walk out of any negotiations that threatens to be another rape of the continent,” said Meles, who leads the panel.
“While we reason with everyone to achieve our objective we are not prepared to rubber stamp any agreement by the powers,” he told African officials and experts from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development at a meeting in Addis Ababa.
“We will use our numbers to delegitimise any agreement that is not consistent with our minimal position.”
According to a study by the UK-based Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, global warming could cost the continent around 30 billion dollars a year by 2015.
That figure could rise to between 50 billion and 100 billion dollars by 2020 due to increasing costs to cope with climate change effects such as frequent and more severe floods, droughts and storms, as well as extreme changes in rainfall patterns, the group said.
African Union chairman Jean Ping urged rich nations not to renege on their financial commitments.
“It is my expectation that such financial resources must be from public funds and must be additional to the usual overseas development assistance,” he told the gathering.
African countries will also demand that industrialised nations take measures to limit global warming to two degrees celsius and cut emissions by 25 to 40 percent by 2020.
“What we are not prepared to live with is global warming above minimum unavoidable levels,” Meles said.
“We will therefore never accept any global deal that does not limit global warming to the minimum unavoidable level, no matter what levels of compensation and assistance are promised to us.”
22 thoughts on “Ethiopia’s khat-addict dictator threatens to boycott Copenhagen”
Bravo our respected prime minister Meles.
You are in deed the agony of Elias and his puppies
Non sense!!!, you think you are smart? omg! you must be crazy.
Elias thank you for rearrenging the sentences in the formal way….
God bless you and continue to correct the words in the right manner where the terrorist group of weyane and its criminal leaders deserves…
death to all weyane elements
The westners are the one who make this dictator to halucinate. He knew that the westerns are not worried of money. So he wants to show the other African dictators how brave he is. He turned his face from terrorism to climate change. Of all countries of Africa, Ethiopia could not represent Africa in climate change to claim money from westners. I think the main aim of the dictators is to grab some money out of the climate chnage initiative. He and his wife are lawyas there where there is money to steal.
You cannot blame Meles for chewing chat.Most Ethiopians CHEW IT SPECIALLY those under 30 years old of age to get friendly with close associates of alamoudi’s investment group and create NEW LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE BY MAINTAINING QUALITY OF LIFE TO THE FULLEST.
A very civilized way of begging
Elias you are killing me with the re-arrangement of the article LOL oh OMG can’t stop laughing!!. Setanawie and Ms Gola , we can tell that they are all been high in khat for the lost 18 years killing people like fly. can’t wait to see the end of this coward criminals.
Look who is talking. The Crime Minsiter is threatning to wlak out of a global meeting of respected people (fair enough, if he doesn’t want to be in), but the bigger question is can he allow such action in his own ruber stamp parlament?
We all know that co2 is food for plants, why are we being told that co2 is so bad the whole world has to do some thing about it? it is for one purpose- if the problem is global, so does the solution- right, yes! then it follows every nation have to compromise their sovereignty, and start to be ruled by some tugs God knows from were! The NWO is the real agenda not paper money which Meles is addict on!
God of Heaven save humanity from these evil men!
I think one important thing ethiopians, in the diaspora, fail to do is inform africans about, yes the greatness of the ethiopian people, but at the same time the criminality of it´s leaders since time immemorial. Maybe africans in the diaspora have no influence on their leaders back home who crawl at the sight of ethiopian leaders but since information is a great weapon and has a tendency to spread fast, especially when it´s true, sooner or later it will bring the neccessary change. In other words african ppl should be taught, YES to ethiopians but NO to their leaders!
The Woyanes “smart” Meles would like to polish his bad image on the occasion of climate change.
He wants to gain momentum on the international arena as a good thinker of Africa.
The guy knows that his bad administrative records became obstacls for his further career. So he tries his last chance/opportunity to hoodwink the international community in the name of Africa.
That is why he is winking his tail to get international attention.
The guy is really smart enough to exploit situations in favor of him.
BUT he can not avoid the inevitable. That inevitable is he is gonna pay the high price that he owes to the Ethiopian people.
wey! megiderider!
What difference does it make whether he or even the whole africa walksout? Bunch of poors and dictators……
the only thing he knows is threatning so it worked for him in ethiopia for the moment. now he thinks he can do it too to the europians.Who the hell thinks he is? he lives on hand outs.donot forget that you a taker not a giver fool.
Meles trays to talk as an academician. But people always laugh at him. How come a narrow minded tribal that does not even consider all Ethiopians as his fellow men can talk on global issues? A MAFERIA, khat addict leader!! Ow, God, please save Ethiopia.
Sewunet
this guy called Meles is really getting to big for his boots – must be living in his nightmare – he does not realize he is known as a killer and usless dictator – he thinks when he receives their hand shake and diplomatic grin that he is being respected – how stupid he is
The crime minister said, “We will use our numbers to delegitimise any agreement that is not consistent with our minimal position.”
I think he needs to be reminded again and again that Ethiopians used their numbers in 2005 to delegitimise his private collection of thieves and murderers (aka government of Ethiopia). He has no right to speak on our behalf let alone blackmail the rest of the world into giving him more aid/ransom.
He must be psychotic and delusional,,, please close family members of him take him to holy water
Of course Melese is begging this is black and white, but this man is begging to build road, hospitals, schools, hydro electric dams and so on. The country you guys are wishing and moaning to rule is in extreme poverty , then if you gus oppositions get chance and take over power it looks like the same thing you do, begging on top of that syphoned it to your nil account.
We non politician ethiopians we don’t care who ever rule the country as long as he is performing very well, Melese is doing that. In the case of woyane’s we know they are using their time for the country and for themselves, they deserve that ,they paid seventeen years out of their life time and given their life the ultimate price, while most of us drinking draght, whisky and chewing khat, don’t be jealios guys.There is an ethiopian saying “BELTO YEMIABELA YEWEDEDALE”
Leave him alone.
Woyanes always talk and think about their stomach. No integrity, no love of people and country and no future.
Woradoch!
Deb
Elias, it’s really a shame on the way u report things. U have the right to protest against the current regime but ur words are not polite and do not represent the Ethiopian culture. I think it’s better if u could think 10 times or more before u post the news.
It shows his degree of addiction.