Italo-Ethiopian Treaty Of Friendship and the Kellogg-Briand Pact

In the 2^nd of August 1922, Italy decided to sign a treaty of friendship with the leader of Abyssinia, Haile Selassie. The treaty was a 20-year friendship between the two nations. One month after they signed this treaty Italians and Ethiopians both signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which consisted of them promising that, they would not use war as a method to achieve what they wanted. However neither of the two countries intended to fulfill their side of the treaty. This was because Mussolini saw this treaty as a way to get the Abyssinian economy. Haile Selassie never trusted Italy; this was because he saw the Treaty as a way in which the Italians could open up a way in order to attempt to invade Abyssinia again.