On the 24th of May 2023, H.E. Ambassador Hirut Zemene held discussion with the Board members of Flemish Inter-University Umbrella Organization for Development Cooperation (VLIR-UOS) through a yearly regular consultation program at the premisses of the Embassy.

Ethiopian delegation led by H.E. Ambassador Hirut Zemene is taking part in the Fifth Special Session of the Conference of the Chemical Weapons Conversion(CWC)) where Member States of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW)) met in The Hague, The Netherlands to evaluate the Convention’s implementation status and set out priorities for the Organisation for the upcoming five years.

H.E. Ambassador Hirut Zemene paid a courtesy call on H.E. Ambassador Andrea Orizio, Permanent Representative of Italy to the Political and Security Committee of the Council of the European Union, on May 9, 2023.

Dr. Adugna Debela, Director General in Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority and representatives of Yirgachefe and Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union have jointly participated in a workshop organized by the OACPS on EU legislation on Accompanying Measures to the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) Emerging Lessons from CS3D Pilots made on April 26-27, 2023.

H.E. Ambassador Hirut Zemene held a discussion with Ms. Laetitia Counye, Manager of Private Equity of the Belgium Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO), on Ethiopia’s Investment opportunities.

H.E. Ambassador Hirut Zemene attended an event organised by Women Ambassadors’ Network in Belgium on Monday, the 18th of April 2023, at the Federal Parliament of Belgium.

Today, H.E. Ambassador Hirut Zemene took part in an event organised by Women Ambassadors Network in Belgium to discuss with H.E. Hadja Lahbib, Minster of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs, Foreign Trade and the Federal Cultural Institutions of the Kingdom of Belgium.

H.E. Ambassador Hirut Zemene met and exchanged views with Madam Andrea Koulaiman, Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and Pacific at the ECHO Commission( Europian Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations) on collaboration between Ethiopia and the Commission on issues related to humanitarian assistance.

H.E. Ambassador Hirut Zemene held a fruitful discussion with H.E. Andris Razāns, Ambassador of Latvia to the kingdom of Belgium at the premises of the Embassy on the 11th of April 2023.