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The Commemorative Visit to Australia, June 18-July 1, 2017, of His Imperial Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie President of The Crown Council of Ethiopia
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 Prince Ermias (left) with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (second from left), ISSA Pres. Gregory Copley, AM, GCHT*, FRCGS, and ISSA Executive Director Pamela von Gruber, GCEL, GCSE, RML, at the Office of the Prime Minister, Canberra, on June 22, 2017. |
His Imperial Highness Prince Ermias Sahle- Selassie Haile-Selassie, President of the Crown Council of Ethiopia, between June 18 and July 1, 2017, visited Australia to commemorate the State Visit to the country by His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I, in 1968. The visit, organized and supported by the Zahedi Center for the Study of Monarchy, Traditional Governance, and Sovereignty at the International Strategic Studies Assn., in Washington, DC, was described by The Australian Financial Review of June 22, 2017, as taking on all the trappings, itself, of a State visit. It took in formal activities in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Perth, hosted by government and civic leaders and the Ethiopian diaspora. |
 Above: His Imperial Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie (right) walks along part of the Wall of Remembrance at The Australian War Memorial in Canberra, accompanied by the Memorial Director and former Defence Minister the Hon. Dr Brendan Nelson, AO. The walls list the Australian war dead, and visitors honor them by placing poppies alongside their names. Prince Ermias laid a wreath made up of Australian wildflowers in the colors of the Ethiopian flag (red, yellow, and green), with a ribbon in the same colors and emblazoned "Australia-Ethiopia", at the Memorial's Grave of the Unknown Soldier. The Emperor, almost a half century before, laid a similar wreath at the Memorial. |