The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia expressed its objection against TPLF member and the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom’s moral, legal and professional standing that threatened WHO’s organizational integrity.
This is indicated in a letter the Ministry sent to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO), Although Ethiopia had nominated Dr. Tedros for the highest office in the global health body, he has not lived up to the integrity and professional expectations required from his office and position, the letter says.
He has been interfering in the internal affairs of Ethiopia, including Ethiopia’s relations with the State of Eritrea, the letter says, adding that he continues as an active member and supporter of TPLF that is proscribed as a terrorist group by the Ethiopian parliament.
According to the letter, Dr. Tedros uses his office to advance his political interest at the expense of the interest of Ethiopia, despite hopes that he would cease his misconduct eventually.
Dr. Tedors encourages the TPLF in his media engagements and celebrates what is presumed to be a military success of the group, besides engaging in a selective outrage where he discriminately addresses the humanitarian concerns in Ethiopia, the letter adds.
!? @WHO DG Tedros Adhanom, who was one of the top 5 leaders of #TPLF, once said he is a proud Weyene. This translates in #Ethiopia as saying proud of being a member of the Nazi party. It's a shame he drags the UN into Ethiopian politics that his party messed up. @antonioguterres pic.twitter.com/N7ZTB2adwJ
— Abebe Gellaw (@abebegellaw) January 13, 2022
It is recalled that before his appointment at WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom was serving as a central committee member of Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), which is now designated as a terrorist group by Ethiopian Parliament.
Through his acts, says the letter, Dr. Tedros of WHO spread harmful misinformation and compromised WHO’s reputation, independence, and credibility which is evident from his social media postings that openly endorse the terror perpetrated by the TPLF against the Ethiopian people.
According to the letter, Dr. Tedros has abused his position by assigning staff in WHO’s country office in Ethiopia with a task of executing the plot to inflate the emergency level in Ethiopia, from 1.8 million people to 3.8 million, to warrant humanitarian intervention. “This misrepresentation of facts is used to misinform the UN Security Council.”
In a manner that denigrates the integrity of the UN system and the work of other offices, Dr. Tedros uses his platform to mobilize the UN community against Ethiopia besides providing technical and financial support to the activities of the TPLF, the letter adds.
The Government of Ethiopia finally urges the WHO Executive Board to commission an investigation on the Director-General to identify his misconduct and violation of his professional and legal responsibility as provided under the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service, staff rules and regulations of WHO, and Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of WHO.
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas."
Dr George Brock Chisholm, first Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) from 1948 to 1953.
— Peter Ebdon (@pdebdon) May 29, 2020