The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia said the Government of Ethiopia has rejected European Union’s (EU) preconditions to deploy election observers describing the preconditions as violation of sovereignty of the country. EU, which requested the government of Ethiopia to send its team of election observers has demanded the Government of Ethiopia to bring its own VSAT telecommunications for the elections observers it is planning to deploy to observe Ethiopia’s 6th general election scheduled to take place in June this year. The EU has also demanded to announce election result ahead of Ethiopian of National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, which the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, Ambassador Dina Mufti, denounced in strong terms as violation of Ethiopia’s sovereignty.