Kassa Kebede, the new Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Nations here, is a graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and speaks fluent Hebrew. The 40-year-old envoy was the Minister of Labar in Ethiopia from 1979 until recently. He was also chairman of the labor commission of the Organization of African Unity.
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