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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Thu Aug 18 2011 - 10:50:39 EDT
http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/18/eritrea-says-ethiopia-seeking-conflict-through-sanctions.html
Eritrea
says Ethiopia seeking conflict through sanctions
AFP
18-08-2011
*UNITED NATIONS: Eritrea on Wednesday accused arch-rival Ethiopia of seeking
an excuse for “military adventurism” by demanding strengthened UN sanctions
against its neighbour.*
Ethiopia has been seeking reinforced international sanctions since a UN
panel said last month that Eritrea was behind a plot to stage bomb attacks
on an African Union summit in Addis Ababa in January.
“Acquiescence to this demand would pave the way for Ethiopia’s military
adventurism in Eritrea” with “impunity”, the Eritrean mission to the UN said
in a statement which highlighted Ethiopia’s sending of troops to Somalia in
2006.
Eritrea accused its neighbour of staging a “frenzied campaign” for sanctions
that would most hurt Eritrea’s people.
“The accusations that Eritrea is destabilizing the region is a distortion of
Eritrea’s foreign policy and a deliberate exaggeration of its capacity,” the
statement said.
In December 2009, the UN Security Council imposed an arms embargo, travel
restrictions and asset freeze on top Eritrean political and military leaders
over their alleged support for Shebab militants in Somalia.
The United States has thrown its weight behind Ethiopia’s call for new
sanctions after the UN group that monitors the sanctions said Eritrea tried
to organised bomb attacks against the AU summit in the Ethiopian capital.
The UN experts also said Eritrea was arming and supporting insurgents in
Somalia, including the Shebab group linked to al Qaeda.
A six-nation East African regional group, the Inter-Government Authority on
Development, has called for sanctions against Eritrea’s mining interests and
banning a tax the radical government puts on remittances sent back by
Eritreans abroad.
“The United States is very very concerned about Eritrea’s behavior in the
region,” the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said last week.
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