From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Sun Mar 07 2010 - 19:49:40 EST
Sudan's Bashir slams UN sanctions on Eritrea-media
Sat Mar 6, 2010 1:07pm GMT
By Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA, March 6 (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has
criticized the sanctions imposed on Eritrea last December by the United
Nations Security Council, Eritrean local media reported on Saturday.
Bashir paid a one-day working visit on the Red Sea state on Friday
during which he held talks with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and
attacked the U.N. resolution.
"The people and the government of Sudan reject the unjust sanctions
Resolution 1907 against Eritrea," the state-run Eritrea Profile reported
Bashir as saying.
Yemane Gebreab, head of political affairs at Eritrea's ruling party,
welcomed the support.
"Such a logical stance would further enhance Eritrean-Sudanese ties and
Eritrea would as ever stand alongside the Sudanese people," the Profile
reported Yemane as saying.
Bashir's visit follows Isaias' involvement in pursuing a peaceful
resolution to the Darfur crisis in Sudan as the two nations continue to
strengthen ties, the Profile said.
The Sudanese president is wanted by the International Criminal Court
(ICC) on charges of "war crimes and crimes against humanity" for his
alleged role in the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
The United Nations believes that seven years of violence in Darfur has
left 300,000 dead and ICC prosecutors say Bashir "masterminded and
implemented" a plan to destroy three ethnic groups using a campaign of
murder, rape and deportation.
Bashir has dismissed the charges and says any ruling by the court is
worthless.
The U.N. Security Council accuses Eritrea of providing funds and weapons
to Islamist insurgents in Somalia where violence has killed 21,000 since
the beginning of 2007, and last December the council slapped sanctions
on Eritrea.
The resolution supported by 13 of the 15 council members was designed to
target the nation's leadership, imposing an arms embargo as well as
asset freezes and travel bans on individuals and firms to be designated
by an existing sanctions committee. (Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE625064._CH_.2420
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