South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will visit Ethiopia on July 8 according to media reports from South Korea. This will be the first visit to Ethiopia by South Korean President in nearly 30 years. President Lee will meet with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and expected to discuss and share Korea’s development experience, green growth strategies, agricultural collaboration, economic and trade cooperation as well as resources development.

President Lee will also lay a wreath at the monument for Korean War veterans in Ethiopia, meet with representatives of Korean residents there, have dinner with Korean volunteers, luncheon with Korean and Ethiopian businessmen, give a speech at the Addis Ababa University and join a volunteer workers’ program.

Ethiopia sent thousands of soldiers to the U.S.-led U.N. forces to help South Korea fight against North Korean troops during the conflict, which ended in an armistice.

Source: http://www.indepthafrica.com/