i'm going to quote you kjetil tronvoll, a scholar of ethiopian politics based in oslo.ery carefully and he says that what you've done is extremely controversial. and it will be difficult to convince tigrayan forces to "voluntarily disarm and make themselves, in effect, indefensible in the face of an enemy that they have been fighting for the last two years". do you worry you may not be able to sell this deal to some of your own people? rest assured, what we are going to sell is not a carte blanche disarmament, where we will find ourselves as the lame duck against enemies. what we are trying to do with the federal government and we hope and expect the federal government to reciprocate, is to make sure that whatever security threats stack up against tigray are fully addressed. for example, the security considerations should take into account the forces arrayed against us, the eritrean forces, otherforces which are not part of the endf. and of course there are a number of issues that need to be addressed, that need to be addressed. we're not saying we are going to lay our