Security Exception under Ethiopian Bilateral Investment Treaty
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2021
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Bilateral investment treaties are legal tools under international law between two contracting countries, the aim of which is to set up understandable, easy, and enforceable rules for the reciprocal protection of foreign investment. Contracting parties have an obligation to enforce BITs like other treaties. However, balancing protections for investment and investor on one hand and national security on the other hand is the area which needs attention for Ethiopia. Thus, this study would deal with how Ethiopian BITs give protection for security of the nation while signing and executing BITs by reviewing investment law, BITs signed by Ethiopia with other sovereign states and other relevant literatures. Ethiopia needs to have a specific and specified national security exception in both its domestic investment laws and BITs, according to the researcher.