A meeting between the Permanent Representative of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Ambassador Michael Murphy, Chargé d’Affairs of the Order to Ethiopia, Merha Agonafer, and the Ambassador of Burundi HE Willy Nyamitwe, was conducted in a cordial and friendly atmosphere. Both parties expressed a mutual commitment to establishing diplomatic relations between their respective countries.  As an initial step, draft protocols were exchanged and timelines established with the goal of concluding at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York in September.