{"id":179334,"date":"2026-09-18T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=179334"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:20:25","slug":"abiy-ahmeds-regime-touted-as-brics-champion-as-bloc-backs-wto-bid-icao-seat-and-cop32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/179334","title":{"rendered":"Abiy Ahmed\u2019s Regime Touted as BRICS \u2018Champion\u2019 as Bloc Backs WTO Bid, ICAO Seat and COP32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Embassy Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires a.i. Sun Mingxi told reporters in Addis Ababa that Ethiopia was the \u201cchampion\u201d of the recent New Delhi BRICS summit, as Abiy Ahmed\u2019s Regime highlights diplomatic wins abroad while war and northern tensions continue at home.<\/p>\n<figure><img class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/brics-inarticle.png\" alt=\"Map of Ethiopia within Africa for diplomacy context\" \/><figcaption>Ethiopia within Africa. Map for location context. Credit: Wikimedia Commons \/ Zegabi media library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday in remarks carried by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanamc.com\/english\/why-ethiopia-emerged-as-the-champion-of-the-new-delhi-brics-summit\/\">Fana Media Corporation<\/a> on September 18, Sun Mingxi linked the \u201cchampion\u201d description to how widely Ethiopia\u2019s priorities appeared in summit discussions among major emerging economies. The New Delhi Declaration, adopted at the 18th BRICS Leaders\u2019 Summit on September 12 and 13, recorded support for three Ethiopian international goals that state media have treated as concrete diplomatic results.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fana and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ena.et\/web\/eng\/w\/eng_9556134\">ENA<\/a>, BRICS members backed Ethiopia\u2019s bid to join the World Trade Organization, welcomed Ethiopia\u2019s candidacy for an additional seat on the International Civil Aviation Organization Council, and expressed support for Ethiopia\u2019s presidency and hosting of COP32 in 2027. Fana notes that Ethiopia is the African Union\u2019s sole endorsed African candidate for the additional ICAO Council seat set aside for underrepresented regions.<\/p>\n<p>State messaging around the summit also featured Abiy Ahmed\u2019s pitch on food security and wheat self-sufficiency, a BRICS grain exchange idea, digital and artificial intelligence cooperation, renewables, logistics including the Modjo dry port, and sea access framed as an economic need to be pursued through peaceful negotiation. Those themes were already partly covered in earlier reporting on Red Sea access remarks; the fresh element for this brief is the Chinese Embassy\u2019s \u201cchampion\u201d line together with the WTO, ICAO, and COP32 package in the New Delhi Declaration.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian federal government presents the package as proof that Addis Ababa can turn BRICS membership into trade, aviation, and climate diplomacy space. For Amhara readers, the same week still includes ENDF claims of mass surrenders on the Tekeze front and continued worry over Amhara civilian harm, so the diplomatic praise abroad sits beside unresolved security costs at home rather than replacing them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanamc.com\/english\/why-ethiopia-emerged-as-the-champion-of-the-new-delhi-brics-summit\/\">Fana Media Corporation<\/a> (Sep 18, 2026); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanamc.com\/english\/brics-reaffirms-support-for-ethiopias-wto-bid-icao-candidacy-and-cop32-presidency\/\">Fana on New Delhi Declaration<\/a> (Sep 14, 2026); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ena.et\/web\/eng\/w\/eng_9556134\">ENA<\/a> (Sep 14, 2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Embassy Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires a.i. Sun Mingxi told reporters in Addis Ababa that Ethiopia was the \u201cchampion\u201d of the recent New Delhi BRICS summit, as Abiy Ahmed\u2019s Regime highlights diplomatic wins abroad while war and northern tensions continue at home.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/179334\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-capital.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179335,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179334\/revisions\/179335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}