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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Fri Jul 22 2011 - 21:33:37 EDT
http://www.innercitypress.com/un2eritrea072211.html
At UN, Eritreans Grilled in Sanctions Committee, Somalia on Tap for July 25
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, July 22 -- After UN Security Council members met behind
closed doors Friday afternoon about Somalia and Eritrea sanctions, Inner
City Press asked committee chairman Hardeep Singh Puri of India if new
sanctions on mining and funds from the Eritrean diaspora were discussed.
“We need a meeting on that,” he said, adding that he had invited Permanent
Representative Desta and presidential adviser Yemane
Ghebreab<http://www.innercitypress.com/un1eritrea072111.html>-- who
Inner City Press interviewed on July 22, click
here for video <http://youtu.be/dLO4vzNX_kA> -- to respond to the “outlines”
of the forthcoming monitoring committee report.
“My goal is compliance with Resolution 1907,” Hardeep Singh Puri said, “not
to box anybody in.”
The discussion take place as the Somalia's Al Shabaab, which Eritrea is
accused of supporting, vacillate about allowing humanitarian groups in to
the drought ravaged areas under their control.
Security Council sources told Inner City Press Friday morning that a
briefing is being scheduled for July 25 at 11 am on Somlia -- “only on
humanitarian issues.”
Some said that holding the briefing might “raise expectations” that the UN
could or would do something in the face of Al Shabaab's humanitarian
blockade. But later Friday it was confirmed: the briefing will proceed.
Eritrea's foreign minister Osman Saleh Mohammed is slated to meet with
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on July 25 at 3:30. And later in the week,
sources say, the monitoring group's report should be made public. We'll see.
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