Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:24:56 +0200
<http://www.tesfanews.net/intervention-by-ambassador-girma-asmerom-at-the-in
formal-consultation-with-un-sanction-committee/> Statement of Ambassador
Girma Asmerom at the Informal Consultation With the Security Council
Sanction Committee
Posted on 22 October 2014.
By TesfaNews,
ERITREA's Permanent Representative at the United Nations, H.E. Ambassador
Girma Asmerom, addressed the Security Council Sanctions Committee on October
10th following the release of the 2014 Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group
(SEMG) <https://natna.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/n1453112.pdf> Report.
After thanking the UN Secretariat and the Chairperson of the Committee for
providing the opportunity, Ambassador Girma went on to explain the numerous
irregularities and groundless allegations that are allowed to be
incorporated within the report.
Ambassador Girma also went on challenging the veracity and credibility of
the entire report especially after it was discovered that one member of the
monitoring group, Mr. Dinesh Mahtani, was caught [
<http://www.tesfanews.net/eritrea-moral-weakness-costs-un-monitor-dinesh-mah
tani-his-job/> later fired] on record openly advocating for regime change in
Eritrea.
Ambassador Girma asked the committee if it is not procedurally and legally
proper for the report to be dismissed as it has been already tainted by the
likes of Mr. Dinesh Mahtani's bias stance and opinion.
The Ambassador also rejects the inclusion of the Eritrean - Ethiopian issue
in the report for no apparent reason than an attempt by the SEMG to move the
goalpost from "sanctioning Eritrea on the issues of Somalia" to the
"Eritrea-Ethiopian issue". He called it a travesty of justice and completely
outside the mandate of the monitoring group. He mentioned, though, if the
Security Council is interested in discussing Ethiopia's occupation of
Eritrean sovereign territory, Eritrea has no problem as long as it is
handled in another format and under different agenda item.
Ambassador Girma finally reminded for those members of the committee who are
insisting for the monitoring group to visit Eritrea for the sanction to be
lifted, he said that can not be a valid argument as the group have already
visited Eritrea on two separate occasions and yet the sanctioned not yet
lifted.
Since it has been asserted beyond any reasonable doubt that there are no
links or Eritrean supports to Al-Shabaab and there is no evidence that shows
Eritrea violating any of the UN Security Council Resolutions, Ambassador
Girma once again called on the members of the Committee to request the UN
Security Council to lift the unjust sanction unconditionally.
The full text of the statement made by Ambassador Girma Asmerom at the
informal Consultation with the sanction Committee is as follows:
H.E. Ambassador Girma Asmerom, Permanent Representative of Eritrea at the
United Nations
H.E. Ambassador Girma Asmerom, Permanent Representative of Eritrea at the
United Nations
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