Eritrea rejects new UN sanctions
ADDIS ABABA:AFP — Eritrea on Tuesday rejected increased UN Security Council sanctions on charges that it supports insurgents in war-torn Somalia, saying the decision will worsen tensions in the Horn of Africa region. The Security Council
ADDIS ABABA:AFP — Eritrea on Tuesday rejected increased UN Security Council sanctions on charges that it supports insurgents in war-torn Somalia, saying the decision will worsen tensions in the Horn of Africa region.
The Security Council on Monday approved further sanctions raising the number of people and entities that can be hit with travel bans and asset freezes.
“The resolution is yet another injustice perpetrated on the Eritrean people, and it will heighten tensions and stoke an already explosive situation in the Horn of Africa,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
However, arch-foe Ethiopia welcomed the sanctions, accusing Asmara of destabilising the region.
“This country, Eritrea, the leadership is a source of instability for the region so everyone is concerned,” Ethiopian foreign affairs spokesman Dina Mufti told AFP.
“IGAD is concerned, the AU is concerned and the international community is concerned,” Dina added, referring to the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development — an East African bloc — and the African Union.
Eritrea has been accused of supporting Somalia’s Shebab Islamist militants with money and weapons, while a UN sanctions monitoring group has also linked Asmara to a bomb plot against an AU summit in Addis Ababa in January.
Eritrea has repeatedly denied all such claims, and instead accused the United State of trying to target it through sanctions.
“It has become evident to everyone at the Security Council, the sanctions were as a result of undisguised United States hostility towards Eritrea,” the statement added.
Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia in 1993 and fought a border war with its neighbour from 1998 to 2000 which continues to poison relations.
Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia have accused Eritrea of supporting the Shebab.
Kenya in October sent troops and tanks to southern Somalia to battle the Shebab following a spate of attacks and kidnappings that Nairobi blames on the Islamist rebels.
Ethiopian troops are also reported to have rolled into Somalia last month to fight the Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
Popular Front for Dictatorship and Jail(PFDJ) December 7, 2011
Deny deny deny deny…..
all times deny deny… alas Mister president… you are looser.. all the time
in fact it deserves this sanctions for this tyrant and liar regime…
he always says blame.. woyane woyane ethiopia, AU, Igad, UN, EU…
while his dirty game poletics is in his own hand and his own silly mind…
hgedf medef go and follow your master gaddafi..
like son like fahter.. isayas silly leader of the world must punished much moreeeeeeeeee
haku December 7, 2011
Sanction only aggrevate the situation in the regione. It is not a solution and it will never be.
abrhyosief@aol.com December 7, 2011
the regime don’t understand the value of human life. he simly assumed that he only exist no else, no one else have the right to live in Eritrea in a dignified ways. Issias is simply gone mental. what is surprising is that our Eritrean brothers and sisters who serve him are also should be shot down.
Issias is not eritrean and he is puting our beloved country in a mess.
we are giving him the time and place to gather his siblings so that he will be well protected.
i can not wait until i see him in a drain hiding like Gadaffi.
ahmed saleh December 7, 2011
Sometimes it irritates me when I imagine the waste of time and energy of our government role
in skirmish. Twenty yrs of oppurtunity of development to build and prosper our HADAS ERITREA had been missed because to the rigid and arrogant mentality of this regime. Always the same
unproductive and negative occurrences again and again have occupied us not to concentrate
and plan for our future with our beloved country. I don’t know, may be there is some hidden
agenda behind it, which is completely wrong . Skirmish inside the country, then after a while
another skirmish with neighbors non stop, how sad.
Abahani December 7, 2011
come on Eritreans,
what are you waiting for, you should understand what kind of person he is. are you waiting for more from Issias
semere December 7, 2011
It is very sad to see the eritrean ppl is suffer for a long period of time. even now the saction hurt for the ppl. the income from the mining it can be 60% goes to the ppl; the 40% for the stupid high rank officials. so the first victim is the eritrean ppl. if something happen tomorrow those stupid generals and official have enough money already, they will run away. weyane and shaebia is the enemy of eritrea. You can say weyane is doing a good thing for the eri ppl; it is like Bchilfa cab bahri(sea). they don’t want to see eritrean progress. they help young eritrean to go to University of mekele, alemayo callege”””””””bla bla all that for their own advantage.
ahmed saleh December 8, 2011
Semere
What bothers most is not the income from mining but the way the system runs the
country. Imagine If our national bank have less authority to administer the economy
than Hagos Kisha and some corrupt Generals, how are we supposed to trust them. As
you said they are exploiting our people to get rich then finnaly run away, like dogs without integrity. God bless Eritrean people.