[10] In a United Nations meeting in Geneva on African famine in 1985, the then Vice President of America, George H. W. Bush, had negotiated Food for the North Initiative [11] with the then Ethiopian Foreign Minister Goshu Wolde.
[12] Wolde reportedly had accused Bush criticism of the Ethiopian Government Famine Relief efforts, as personal political motivations.
He had asked West donations to be provided to Ethiopian Government directly instead of routing through private agencies.
[14] Following the rebel take over in May 1991 by the EPRDF, Wolde Goshu warned that a lasting peace would not develop unless a broad transitional government was established in which the Amhara ethnic group was adequately represented.
[15] On 21-22 March 1992, the Ethiopian Movement for Democracy, Peace and Unity (EMDPU) led by Goshu Wolde was launched as a political organisation in exile, opposed to the EPRDF regime.