Minasse Haile (Amharic: ምናሴ ኃይሌ, born 2 January 1930) is an Ethiopian diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1971 to 1974.
[1] He started his political career in 1961 as legal adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, helping draft the first civil service regulations of Ethiopia and established the first Personnel Administrative Agency.
[2] Not long thereafter, he was appointed Chief of Political Affairs of Emperor Haile Selassie's private cabinet in 1961.
He was Ambassador to the United States from 1968 until August 19, 1971, when he succeeded Ketema Yifru as Minister for Foreign Affairs..[2] As foreign minister, he continued his predecessor's policies of pro-Western non-alignment and neutrality on the Arab-Israeli dispute, at least until 1973, when Ethiopia broke ties with Israel under Arab pressure.
Following the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie, he went into exile and eventually taught at Cardozo Law School.