From: YPFDJ DENVER (ypfdjdenver@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 14 2010 - 12:35:10 EST
On January 10, 2010, Eritreans residing in Colorado held a community meeting
where the following resolution was agreed upon and passed calling upon the
reversal of the unjust UN sanctions passed on 23 December 2009.
Press release to follow; look for more information soon as this campaign
continues to build!
Eritrea is facing an unprecedented international campaign orchestrated by
the regime in Ethiopia designed to economically and politically weaken
Eritrea.
- As the Eritrean community residing in Colorado, we stand by the people
of Eritrea and its Government and categorically condemn the illegal, unjust
and unfair sanctions against the State of Eritrea as called for by UN
Security Council Resolution 1907 (2009) adopted on 23 December 2009.
- As the Eritrean community residing in Colorado, we understand only too
well that women and children are the most affected by issues of war,
economics, and international politics and call on the international
community to respect the rights of the Eritrean people to live in peace
within their internationally recognized borders.
- As the Eritrean community residing in Colorado, we support the
Government of Eritrea in its pursuit of a mutually agreed upon solution to
the Eritrea-Djibouti issue without the interference of external parties.
- As the Eritrean community residing in Colorado, we declare any policy
that makes the health and survival of Eritrea’s children conditional on a
solution for the Ethiopian created quagmire in Somalia as illegal, unfair
and unjust.
- As the Eritrean community residing in Colorado, we call on the UN
Security Council, if it wants to preserve peace, security and stability in
the Horn of Africa region, to uphold the principles enshrined in the UN
Charter and take punitive actions against Ethiopia. Ethiopia is in breach of
the Algiers Agreements it willingly and consciously singed, international
law, and the UN Charter. It has openly rejected the Eritrea Ethiopia
Boundary Commissions (EEBC) final and binding delimitation and demarcation
decisions of 2002 and 2007 respectively, and is militarily occupying
sovereign Eritrean territories, including Badme. Eritrea has accepted,
without any precondition, the Decision of the Boundary Commission.
- As the Eritrean community residing in Colorado, we call on the UN
Security Council, if it wants to preserve peace, security and stability in
Somalia, to uphold the principles enshrined in the UN Charter and take
punitive actions against those States that committed crimes against humanity
in Somali. Ethiopia has committed international crimes in Somalia and
created the greatest humanitarian emergency in the history of the nation. It
continues to interfere in the internal affairs of Somalia and has been
contributing to the bloodshed, lawlessness and anarchy in Somalia in the
past 20 years by providing weapons to various warring factions in the
country. Eritrea on the other hand has not violated the rights of the Somali
people.
By virtue of the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples
enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, all peoples have the right,
to freely and without external interference, to determine their political
status and to pursue their economic, social and cultural development, and
that every State has the duty to respect that right in accordance with the
provisions of the Charter (Article 2.1).
Eritrea fully respects the rights of the Somali people to determine their
own destiny and has consistently called for non-interference in the internal
affairs of Somalia. Ethiopia on the other hand has in violation of the UN
Charter, Security Council resolutions 1724 and 1725, the African Union and
IGAD resolutions on Somalia, invaded and occupied Somalia in December 2006.
Eritrea also believes that only by strict conformity with the principles of
sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of States enshrined
in Article 2.7 of the UN Charter, can peace, stability and security be
restored in Somalia. Eritrea has also consistently called on the
international community to allow the Somali people to choose their own
leaders.
The Eritrean Community residing in Colorado calls on the international
community and the Security Council to uphold the rule of law and the UN
Charter.
Eritrean Community in Colorado
10 January 2010
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