Eritrea appeals to UN in bid to prevent sanctions
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 – Eritrea’s president has asked for a personal hearing before the UN Security Council in a bid to head off new sanctions over alleged support for Somalia’s Islamist rebels, diplomats said. Rival
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 – Eritrea’s president has asked for a personal hearing before the UN Security Council in a bid to head off new sanctions over alleged support for Somalia’s Islamist rebels, diplomats said.
Rival Ethiopia has been calling for tougher action against Eritrea for several months after its neighbor was linked to a plot to bomb an African Union summit in Addis Ababa.
Kenya is now accusing Eritrea of arming Somali Islamist rebels and UN Security Council members Nigeria and Gabon have tabled a resolution calling for sanctions on Eritrea’s mining industry and remissions from abroad.
Eritrea’s President Issaias Afeworki has asked to speak to the 15-nation Security Council in New York in a move opposed by the United States.
Some Western nations oppose new sanctions, fearing such restrictions could harm the civilian population, diplomats said.
Afeworki has denied Kenya’s accusations that his country arms Shebab rebels in Somalia and that it was involved in a plot, outlined in a UN sanctions committee report, to bomb the summit in the Ethiopian capital in January.
The Security Council has not yet formally replied to the president, but diplomats said the United States and other council members feared that his presence at a meeting would only increase tensions.
“If Afeworki is at a meeting, then how could we stop the leaders of Ethiopia and other countries coming,” one Western diplomat said.
The United States has in the past spoken out in favor of new sanctions.
But envoys from other members of the council say action against mining — the mainstay of Eritrea’s tiny, crippled economy — would only harm the country’s five million people.
No date has yet been set for a meeting on Eritrea, but the six-nation Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, an East African regional bloc, is stepping up pressure for a decision, diplomats said.
The draft resolution calls on all states to “prohibit investment” in Eritrea’s key mining industry and ban the imports of gold and other resources from Eritrea, according to a copy of a draft resolution seen by AFP.
The action would also seek to ban the collection of a two percent tax on money sent home by Eritreans abroad.
In December 2009, the Security Council imposed an arms embargo, travel restrictions and asset freezes on Eritrean leaders for their alleged support to Shebab in the civil war against Somalia’s Western-backed transitional government.
Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh said in a letter to the Security Council last week that giving Ethiopia and “other powers that harbor belligerent intentions” the right to inspect any cargo heading for Eritrea “is fraught with dangerous security implications.”
Action against the mining industry would “cripple future economic growth,” said the minister.
He went on to slam the travel ban against officials as a bid to “reinforce the image of a ‘pariah state’ that Eritrea’s enemies have been peddling.”
AFP
CRYFREEDOM November 8, 2011
Thanks UN the misery of eritrean peoples, it will be end with the end of shifta ISAYAS AFORKI
MY GOD BLESS ERITREANS
Ahmed November 8, 2011
A president that does not give or respect justice does not deserve it and he should be denied.
A president that does not listen to others should not be given any forum to talk.
A president that uses slave labour slave should be barred from UN forum.
Weldit November 8, 2011
This news is sooooo from last week. Why are AFP & Reuters recycling it?
With all the techno-advancement we have, even news from the morning is becoming old, let alone from last week.
It’s a rapidly changing world out there.
Abnet Tesfai November 8, 2011
OH!!!!!!!! ISSAYAS MIENJILU
YOU ARE CONSIDERING THE UN LIKE ENDAZIENA FORTO WITH ALI ABDU.
YOU WERE IGNORING THEM FOR YEARS, AND NOW THEY ARE IGNORING YOU. YOU FOOLISH GUY!!! YOU ARE KNOCKING THEIR DOORS, THEY WILL NEVER GIVE YOU ANY ATTENTION AS THEY KNOW THAT YOU ARE MAD DOG, JUST THEY WILL KEEP THEMSELVES AWAY. YOU ARE MOVING NOW HERE AND THERE ON THE COVER OF DIPLOMACY TO EXTEND YOUR TIME TO SUFFER ERITREA. YOU ARE CARELESS, MERCILESS TO YOUR OWN PEOPLE TO MAINTAIN YOUR PRESIDENCY. WHY DON’T YOU ENFORCE THE LAW FOR YOUR OWN PEOPLE INSTEAD OF BEGGING THE UN NOT TO PUT YOU IN TROUBLE LIKE GHADAFI; THE ERITREAN PEOPLE IS ON THE WAY TO CRACK YOUR HEAD. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH….STOP JOKING WITH ERITREAN PEOPLE LIFE,IF NOT FACE IT KNOW… ….KITKITKET EKA KEM TEMEN EDAGHA.
Isayas is not only foolish! He is also stupid ,Garbage filled mouth,that he was cursing and ignoring the the organizations ,like OAU, IGAD,UN. November 8, 2011
Afewerki is not oly foolish, !!He is also stupid Trash filled Mouth, tha he does not hesitate to vomit garbage stuff to the International organizations,like IGAD,OAU, UN,EU . Now when things are closer to hung his neck, he is beging to to make a speech. Isays first of all respect your people, respect your neighbour, respect every human,and perhapse ask your self where youare?who you are?
Kozami November 8, 2011
Thomas Keneally, on his best seller “To Asmara” once noted;
“Do you know what the emergency really is? You want to hear about the really big emergency? The emergency is that if you guys [Eritreans] succeed [using your principle of self-reliance], you’ll be an embarrassment to Africa. Who wants a setup like yours? There aren’t many governments on this continent that do. There aren’t many governments in Europe. Colored folk who can look after themselves? It isn’t viable. It upsets the world picture. Don’t you know the West has to believe famine’s an act of God? If they believe that, they only have to make a donation. But if they believe it’s an act of bloody politics, they have to really do something, and that’s too, too complicated. So what is the story? The story is you guys will fall on your own f-ucking swords, because you’ve got this crazy idea that the world will allow you to be perfect!” ‘These guys [Eritreans] are astounding! Running all this. And you know what? The world hates ‘em for it! The world hooked into the idea of ‘the helpless Africans!” “You know what I think? They are brave to the point of folly and they’re clever to the point of being dumb. No one absolutely no one, from Washington to Moscow, wants them to succeed. No one. … God’s even taken the rain away from them, for Christ’s sake. Even he thinks they’re wrong-headed. The sin of pride … the sin of being sharp when no one wants them to be.”
Baraee November 8, 2011
Kozami Howey,
Except Thomas Kennelly, Dan Konell are shocked by the behaviour of a governoment which ended up to be one man governoment…they were on a path to even challenge their governoment inspired by our desitny a human destiny so pure. But now if not you people so hoodwinked began to call these Thomas and Dan CIA, because they are supershocked by the duplicity of Issafi.( Issayas is an Eritrean word I would to insult).
So in all sincerity when you quote Thomas Kennelly are you appreciating his view of Eritrea in seizing the true meaning what his intentions are….If so would you doubt him if Thomas Kennelly just wrote this argument I am doing to you….meaning that he tells but Issayas dashed the dream of the people worse he betrayed the gallants of Shael? Or is it with convenience you would use his quote when it is in praise of our revolution as if it is owned by this treacherous so called governoment but a mafia Higdef…This is coming from a life time Hizbawigenbar…but first and foremost I am an Eritrean.
Kozami November 9, 2011
Baraee hawey (or haftey)
Your moment of true awakening would herald not at the end of your ‘life time’ toiling on something your heart never believed in, but in the dawn of your humble realization that today’s Eritrea is not a one man show. Because such hallucination would render you nothing more than a flying pig when faced with stark reality. To bestow the credit for the reality of united and tenacious Eritrea upon a single mortal being only brings to the fore your subtle paradox of marveling at some one you seek to be scoffed at. Eritrea, to have stood as it has done, in the face of such temporal adversity is in itself both necessary and sufficient to preclude the likelihood it being the work of the singular man that you hold in high esteem, albeit in a subtly self contradictory footing.
Huluf November 11, 2011
Kozami Haftey,
Then let me know why is that every leader every hero and their heroine wives, every brave eritrean , every great writer, every journalist, every courageous ends up in jail….don’t you have a sould whe your own president has not even opened his mouth while his own young Eritreans are butchered for their vital organs to redeem others as spare parts….have you no shame as proud as you could be of this dictator and it is your right but not question why he is completely ignorig it…..Why should he? he has six of his brothers and two of his sisters living in America, United Sates luxuriously…..why should he when there hoodwinked and fooled people such us you are creating a thorn in the society he has created pain. Why should he when people are asked to fly to DC and then asked to get on a bus and driven to new york? …..such has become the docile and submissive and hero worshiping behaviour of Eritreans like you….recently named because of the similar behaviour as the derg Zemachs.
Senait November 8, 2011
The late Tanzanian Minister and Pan African, Abdurrahman Babu once said, “I have seen the remote future of Africa.” in expressing his admiration of the Eritrean peoples struggle for liberation after he personally witnessed life in the then liberated areas of Eritrea. He was so impressed by the presence of hundreds of Eritrean professionals flocking back from all corners of the world and working for free to liberate and build their country; he took it beyond its extent and labeled it African Liberation. I am sure if he was alive today, he would have been the most vocal critic of the current PFDJ clique.
Kozami, I think you are hallucinating. You are not allowing your grey matter to function.
Zekhtam Eritrawi November 9, 2011
Senait,
I don’t mean to pull Neuroanatomy on you but I would say, it is the synapsis that are slowing in Kozami’s Grey mater or Pia mater. Sure enough, if the Cubans had Siera Madre, we had Mount Adal, if they had Che Guevara, we had the unaccounted for heros and heroins who died in the mountains of Sahil where those who made it alive are languishing in foxholes of Era-Ero. If a success story or a marvel and an epitome of a guerilla struggle was foretold by Abdurahman Babu, he is fortunate enough to have died before he witnessed the death of a dream where he would have been disappointed in life as he is in death.
Senait November 9, 2011
Zekhtam Eritrawi,
He is more than fortunate enough. It is not only the death of the African dream. Can you imagine the pain he would undergo to rewind the expectations he has set for himself as a Pan African. It would have been so gruesome to chew your own tongue, let alone to witness Eritrea’s current tragedy.
Did you have a chance to read my brief response to your question from the other thread?
Zekhtam Eritrawi November 9, 2011
Senait,
Well said. I couldn’t agree more. I am afraid I haven’t read your otherwise much needed reply. Will read it. Thanks.
Zekhtam Eritrawi November 9, 2011
Senait,
I just finished reading your response with an ample interest. I sure agree with the fact that, the question I posed to you was not only vast in scope but it could as well be up close and personal as it could be more elaborated from people who have known him from two feet away if you will. Sure enough, I am not alluding to the fact that you don’t know him well but as much as the question is just curious, it wouldn’t serve much as it tends to put Isaias on a Freudian coach where in the final analysis what matters the most is what he is as opposed to how he came about. Please forgive me if I rumbled.
Kozami November 9, 2011
Zekhtam Eritrawi
The pia matter simply contains the grey matter, where synapsis had long become a thing of the past by the time the two have taken form. You need to get on the ball before attempting to kick it, else an empty foot would be swaggering in mid air!
Zekhtam Eritrawi November 9, 2011
Kozami,
It sure is a refresher to give politics a hiatus and glide in the world of life sciences. When Pia mater is found in the inner most layers of the meninges, Grey matter is the main component of the central nervous system (Brain and Spinal Chord) where it looks grey simply because it is devoid of myelin sheath (the fatty substance that insulates the axons). Moreover, Grey matter is composed of cell bodies where cell bodies communicate with other neurons through synapsis as the synapsis are embedded with neurotransmitters. The rationale goes, if your synapsis are far and in between with each other, your thinking ability would be compromised if not the pace information would be slow. I am sure you know about Babiniski syndrome where a less than a year old infant would suffer from it as the neurons are not insulated properly (which is perfectly normal) where it is a serious condition if it is seen in an adult for it is a symptom of neurological degeneration as the myelin sheath is compromised as opposed to the derailment of the synapsis.
Huluf November 11, 2011
Kozami,
Stop fooling yourself…there is nothing you can tell me or other fellow Eritreans of your and mine until you explain where is our President in protecting his people butchered for spare parts in the deserts of Egypt….Can you try …..I beg ….try….try to just for few seconds get into their shoe what transpired in the minutes and seconds the horrow they went through as the inscribed on the walls of Egypt….”….izi kemann kihalef iyu….”. May be the watche as their infusion and other surgery apparatus for surgical procedure on humans who never asked to be checked….do you imagine what they went through…both the boys and worst our girls and ladies……You must have no shame…..absolutely.
Zekhtam Eritrawi November 8, 2011
Kozami,
As much as it is condescending on his part, one would be hard pressed to know whether he said those lipstick-on-a-pig words after the major crack down on the G-15 or before simply because, the erstwhile admirers of Isaias (Dan Connell et al) woke up to see the real deal in Isaias beneath the facade of a charming guy.
Maazza November 9, 2011
Kozami
If Thomas Keneally believes that today’s PFDJ is remotely similar to yesteryear’s EPLF, he may be more interested in not being wrong that he had recorded those powerful statements than the truth on the ground. When he wrote those ‘golden’ words, the Eritrean people were brimming with hope that they would achieve their independence by their sacrifice and they would then build a nation of nations in its upholding the rule of law and raising the standard of education, health and living of its people. There was a powerful dream which Ato Isayas did not hesitate to steal and make a nightmare of. He toils day and night for an Albania type system where you ‘cut off’ brilliance, creativity, excellence, etc and make a gebar of everybody good enough to exploit in hard labour, unable to demand and obtain his/her rights he/she is so busy toiling and making ends meet. Surely, like Don Connel, Mr. Thomas Keneally is keenly aware of this reality. Sadly, our cyber friend Kozami fails to see any things to reprimand Hgdef as they are doing wonders for their people. I think Kozami ‘lives’ in Mars!
For me, Abnet Tersfai knows who Isayas is and what he does, knows the ills of his people and predicts the most obvious fate waiting for DIA ‘….KITKITKET EKA KEM TEMEN EDAGHA.’!
Kozami November 9, 2011
Maazaa
Where do you get off talking like “…where you ‘cut off’ brilliance, creativity, excellence, etc and make a gebar of everybody…” Social justice isn’t in your dictionary of venom, is it?
Zekhtam Eritrawi November 9, 2011
Kozami,
Maaza would get off when Eritrea gets back on the right track. Suppose you accompany a friend of yours to see a doctor where the diagnosis is dismal, would you ask the doctor to help your friend or you would tell the doctor to get off the gloomy diagnosis and give him a feel-good but false diagnosis?
Maazza November 10, 2011
Zekhtam Hawey
You are a shinning warrior of this cyber site. You so much remind me of my cyber very dear brother Temesgen Medhanie whom I miss so much. In fact, I sometimes, when reading your post, think it is him in person. With people like you on the right side of history, Eritrea has a rosy future. It makes one very much alive with hope to have principled persons like you. May God bless you!
Maazza November 10, 2011
Kozami
Around 1991/92 hoards of Eritreans who had made a little money in Saudi and Gulf States came rushing home to start their activities and settle and enrich themselves and their country. In no time, they understood the wind that was blowing and left and ended up in the some other African countries, successful in their endeavor. Then during the same time, you had a hoard of intellectuals that came rushing from all over the world to get involved in the development of their country. What happened is there for everyone to see. The only University, closed. Hgdef and its 09 and wanting to control everything in the country, including the amount of bread you eat. God, that is even worse than ex-Albania. If this is not ‘equality by subtraction’ and cutting excellence, creativity, brilliance, etc. I don’t know what is.
Zekhtam Eritrawi November 10, 2011
Maaza haftey,
I sure bid farewell to all of you as I was to get engaged in a couple of work related projects but due to unforeseen circumstances the projects will have to stay put for a while. Some of the PFDJ sycophants assumed that I was going to Addis to participate in the upcoming conference where the timing of my farewell and the conference coincided. I wish I had the caliber and stamina to be called and chip in my fair share to the on going struggle to put Eritrea back on the right track. As much as I am back to this forum and be in your otherwise warm company, I wish all compatriots who are in the conference where they need all the support they could ever find to make the historic undertaking a stellar success.
Maazza November 11, 2011
Zekhtam Hawey
I can only say Elllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Elllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Elllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll for having you back!
Abrhaley E't'iDne November 8, 2011
Sanction is not for the eritrean ppl. it is for the Asmara regime. Don’t you think they deserve more than that ?
Sanction is just the appetite food for the main course (apporativo). The real game changer is the final arrest of Isayas similar to the Gaddafi style.
Baraee November 8, 2011
You got it Abrahaley….our people are sanctioned in Eritrea. Some Zemachs and Komaro are self sanctioned too.
So in the end it does not matter whether this megalmonia Issafi brother of Gadaffi makes the noise and cowardice he ends up in. Where is his bravery of challenging anything on his way?
LONGDREAMER November 9, 2011
kOZAMI…….
You try to convince as that we are copying or accepting the willings of the western….but let me ask you
Would you be happy if your father tells you to stay on your home for all your life with out interacting with others?
would it be good for you if your father obbladges you not to speak all your life?
would it be happy if he tortures you all the time?
would it be good to you to tell you only one times a day and not going to toilte.?
This is what their doing in our home land. So if you are a normal person we are not copying we are responding to our pain and anger.
I try to give you a simple example like a child couse i see you are doing like that.
Kozami November 9, 2011
Longdreamer
Around 30 individuals are detained under allegations of infringing on matters of national security. Please stop reducing it to familial squabble (get my drift?).
Semere November 9, 2011
The regime of Isayas has fooled the Eritrean people for 20 years beyond any imagination. 30 years before independence and 20 years after, is the same old story: “one man show”. It offends our dignity and pride. The sanction will not humiliate us more. On the contrary, it will create public opinion and enhance the demise of Issayas regime. Specially an eye opener to the Eritreans in diaspora who still are unable to see the suffering of our people. After the images that came from Sinai, do they need more proofs? These are our youngsters who were slaughtered in the most cruel and degrading manner. By the way those images where taken by Egyptian human rights activitsts; and not by the Eritrean opposition or Ethiopian regime.(that is the usual excuse)
Popular Front for Dictatorship and Jail November 9, 2011
on his way to end… and follow his friend Gadafi