Freedom of the Mass Media and Access to Information Proclamation No ... 12 of 23 http://www.ethiopian-law.com/federal-laws/substantive-law-legislations... article includes information: a) relating to military operation, exercises, military tactics or stratery undertaken in preparation of hostilities or in connection with the detection, prevention, suppression or curtailment of subversive or hastile activities. b) relating to the quantity, characteristics, copacity, power, vulnerabilities or function or capability or deployment or utility of weapons or any other equipment used for the detecting, preventing or supressing or curtailing of subversive or hostile activities or any thing being designed, developed, produced or considered for use as weapons or such other equipment; c) relating to the characteristics ,capabilities vulnerability, potential, deployment or function of any military force , unit or personnel or anybody or person entrusted with the task of detecting, preventing ,suppressing or curtailing hostile or subversive activities or d) on methods of, and scientific or technical equipment for, collecting, assessing or handling information referred to in this sub article under (a),(b),(c)and(f) e) or on the identity of a confidential source and any other source of information referred to in this sub-article under (f); f) held for the purpose of intelegence relating to the national defence or relating to the detection, defence, suppression or curtailment of subversive or hostile activities or relating to another state or an international organization or used by or on behalf of the country in the process of deliberation and consultation in the conduct of international affairs g) information supplied by or on behalf of the country to another state or an international organization in terms of an international agreement or arrangement with that state or organization which requires the information to be held in confidence; or h) required to be held in confidence by an international agreement or international customary law; or i) on the positions adopted or to be adopted by the country, another state or an international organization for the purpose of present or future international negotiations; or j) that constitutes diplomatic correspondence exchanged with another state or with an international organization or official correspondence exchanged with diplomatic missions or consular posts of the country. 24. Cabinet Documents 1) The public relation officer shall not permit any request for an access to a cabinet record or a request to conform the existence or non existence of information contained in a cabinet record other than those records that are made available to the general public by the decision of the cabinet. 2) Without prejudice to sub article (1)of this Article, a cabinet document shall include: a) a record that has been submitted to the cabinet for its consideration or is proposed by a head of the public body to be so submitted, being a document that was brought into existence for the purpose of submission for consideration by the cabinet; b) an official document of a cabinet; c) a document that is a copy of, or a part of, or contains an extract from, the document referred to in sub-article(a)or (b); or d) a record the disclosure of which would involve the disclosure of any deliberation or decision of cabinet, or its Translate Share My Bookmarks 10/01/2011 4:15 PM