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Ethiopia opens cultural centre, coffee shop in India

IANS March 20, 2013 New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Ethiopia, one of the world's most ancient countries, is broadening its cultural footprint in India, with the opening of the first Ethiopian Cultural Centre, complete with a traditional coffee shop , in the capital. The centre - a sprawling facility with crafts display rooms, meeting space and an elegant coffee shop in the diplomatic enclave of Chanakyapuri - will serve the "purpose of introducing Ethiopian culture to India and to the international community", Gennete Zewide, the ambassador of Ethiopia to India, said. The centre was inaugurated Tuesday evening by the Ethiopian state minister of industry Ato Tadesse Haile in the presence of the Ethiopian envoy, Indian businessmen, a host of dignitaries from African nations, here for the 9th India-Africa Conclave, and members of the diplomatic corps. Addressing the inauguration, Zewide said the major attraction of the Ethiopian Cultural Centre was an Eth...