Eritrea Asks If UN Can Bribe Its Officials For Info But Gets No Hearing,
Unlike DPRK
By Matthew Russell Lee
19.04.2012
UNITED NATIONS, April 18 -- Months after the UN Security Council imposed
more sanctions on Eritrea without arranging for its president to address the
Council before the new resolution was finalized,
<
http://www.innercitypress.com/sc2afwerki110311.html> "in blue," Eritrea's
Mission to the UN has for what it's worth raised questions about the
Sanctions Committee's sourcing.
If this were being reported elsewhere, Inner City Press might not. But at
the UN a silence surrounds the treatment of Eritrea. The simultaneous
meeting of the North Korea Sanctions Committee drew much interest though
that committee's chair said very little afterwards, declining even to
confirm that Japan has submitted a list of new sanctions targets.
Meanwhile Eritrea could not get such coverage of its defense to its (and
Somalia's) sanctions committee. And so we run this quote:
The vitriol that the Monitoring Group routinely produces against Eritrea
emanates, by its own admissions, from four principal sources:
i) Foreign law enforcement agencies; this begs the question on who these
agencies are? Why are their testimonies accepted without checking the
ulterior agendas that they may harbor? Do we have assurances that
testimonies from intelligence agencies that have hostile agendas against
Eritrea are excluded or meticulously corroborated with accounts of other
neutral and credible bodies?
ii) The second category of sources of the Monitoring Group is 'former
Eritrean military or diplomatic officials.' Again, what are the assurances
that testimonies of elements who may be fugitives from the law or who may be
involved in subversive activities against the country are credible and not
politically motivated fabrications?
iii) The third sources are "active Eritrean Government contacts". This
provokes other deeper questions. Is it lawful for the Monitoring Group to
foster clandestine contacts with Eritrean officials? What are the financial
or other inducements? And can testimonies of this type be considered valid?
These strike us as good questions, and should be answered. Watch this
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