Following Sudan’s claim of Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumz region, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia urged Sudanese officials to refrain from issuing provocative statements about Ethiopia. The Ministry today issued the following statement “because of the unwarranted, provocative and increasingly bellicose propaganda campaign by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Sudan against Ethiopia.” Below is the full statement “Ethiopia has for long refrained from reacting to the numerous fabricated stories appearing in the press statements of Sudanese institutions and remarks by government officials taking into account the historic and fraternal relations between the brotherly peoples of Ethiopia and the Sudan,” it said.