Goshu Wolde

Goshu Wolde
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
1983–1986
Preceded byFeleke Gedle-Giorgis
Succeeded byBerhanu Bayeh
Personal details
Born1942 (age 81–82)
Gore, Ethiopia
Political partyCOPWE
WPE
Other political
affiliations		Ethiopian Medhin Democratic Party
EducationHarar Military Academy
Addis Ababa University (LL.B.)
Yale Law School (LL.M.)

Goshu Wolde (born 1942) is a former Ethiopian Foreign Minister[1] and worked as minister of education, of Ethiopia[2][3][4] from 1983 to 1986. Wolde, formerly a foreign minister under Mengistu, resigned the Mengistu government in 1986, by sending his resignation letter from New York City to Ethiopian Head of State Mengistu Haile Mariam, stating dictatorship, cruelty and deterioration of Revolution in his letter, and established himself in United States in opposition to the Mengistu Government[5] In the year 1992, Wolde founded the Ethiopian Medhin Democratic Party, in Washington D.C.[6] He made a famous speech to the US Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs in 1991 and that speech is still shared and discussed by millions of Ethiopians.[7] Wolde was the leader of two foreign based group movements, the shadowy Free Soldiers Movement and the Ethiopian Movement for Democracy, Peace and Unity.[8]

  1. ^ "ETHIOPIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER, CONSIDERED A MODERATE, QUITS". New York Times. 28 October 1986. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  2. ^ Clapham, Christopher. Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia. Cambridge University Press. p. 71.
  3. ^ "Wave of Defections Reveals Marxist Failure in Ethiopia". Los Angeles Times. 24 December 1986. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  4. ^ Finn, James. Ethiopia: The Politics of Famine. University Press of America. p. 81.
  5. ^ "Profile Series - Ethiopia, Update On Political Conditions - University of Minnesota Human Rights Library" (pdf). Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  6. ^ Shinn, David; P. Ofcansky, Thomas. Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia. Scarecrow Press. p. 194.
  7. ^ "Ethiopian Foreign Minister Goshu Wolde". Orlando Sentinel. October 28, 1986. Archived from the original on April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  8. ^ Banks, Arthur S.; Day, Alan J.; Muller, Thomas C. Political Handbook of the World 1998. CSA Publications. p. 308.