The Eritrean government has been intensifying its diplomatic activities particularly in the first week of September in Nairobi. The Foreign Minister Mr. Osman Salih and Mr.Yeman Gebreab, the Head of the PFDJ and the Political Advisor to the Dictator had arrived in Kenya on 1^stof September and left on 6^th of September. On 15^th of September, the First Secretary of the Eritrean Embassy in Kenya, Mr.Yohannes Berhe, addressed a group of Eritreans on behalf of the Ambassador of Eritrea to Kenya Mr. Beyene Russom and proudly claimed that the two state dignitaries had met and discussed with the Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Ambassador Amina Mohammed and H.E. Uhura Kenyatta on bilateral matters that concern both countries.

In addition, the First Secretary claimed that Ambassador Beyene Russom met and discussed with the Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Ambassador Amina Mohammed and H.E. Uhura Kenyatta on Friday the 13^th of September. On both occasion the meetings were approved to be constrictive and successful.

However, the Group of Concerned Eritreans residing in Kenya – , has investigated the claims and all were found to be baseless and total fabrication – in the first place, there were no such meetings which had taken place in Nairobi. According to our reliable sources they only managed to conduct informal meetings with some junior government officials.

This false claim was merely political propaganda and shows that the regime has lost its grip of power and does not have any place in Kenya. We condemn such act of falsification of facts in the strongest possible terms and the Embassy should apologize publicly to the miss-informed Eritreans and the government of Kenya for the diplomatic offence the Embassy had committed.

Concerned Eritreans from East Africa