Ethiopia is not yet party to the New York Convention on the
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. It can also be
said that Ethiopian arbitration laws fail to cope with the emerging
modern laws and practices in international commercial arbitration.
However, as of 1965, with the introduction of the Civil Procedure Code
(CPC), rules on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments
and arbitral awards are set out whose interpretation, unfortunately, have
remained thus far inconsistent. Thus, the criteria must be clearly
interpreted and applied so that the rules can be conducive to the steadily
increasing practice of modern arbitration. This article attempts to shed
some light on these conditions