The UN could have used all its allotted time for this emergency trip in Ethiopia alone. Eritrea's policy towards the border dispute and the war has always been from the beginning one and only, "PEACEFUL NEGOTIATION and LEGAL SETTLEMENT OF THE BORDER DISPUTE". During the proximity talks in Algiers, Eritrea only asked the reinforcement of the OAU peace plan, The Framework for Peace, and the Modalities, two documents to which Ethiopia and Eritrea have claimed to have accepted. Eritrea only asked the spirit of the OAU peace plan be upheld by signing the documents and implementing a cease-fire. In the face of such policy what could the UN possibly gain towards peace by going to Eritrea? Eritrea has given, including many concessions as goodwill gesture towards peace, all that a nation and her people could give.
 
The UN could have invested all its energy and wisdom in persuading Ethiopia to honor its word by signing the OAU peace plan and implement a cease-fire. It is a noble cause for which the UN has passed numerous resolutions and have encouraged the warring parties to take up on such wisdom. Eritrea has followed them to the letter and fulfilled all the world's wish for a peaceful resolution of this conflict. What is it now they need to address in Eritrea? What could they possibly twist the Eritrean people's arm for? The UN delegation could have spent their wisdom and energy in Ethiopia assessing the tragic consequences of TPLF's stubborn stance to defy the world and reality by choosing war instead of peace. The UN could have visited the dying and starving children; the sick and unattended; the unemployed and disgruntled; the poor and the forced conscripts of TPLF's Ethiopia; the new monuments of Tgray and the millions that is being spent to feed the war and the mask of bravado. While in Ethiopia the UN could have made an assessment on the plight of the Eritrean deportation and the ethnic cleansing policy of TPLF; they could have visited the thousands of Eritreans in Ethiopia's concentration camps. The UN could have spent their time in Ethiopia where open eyes and the will for justice could have led them to speak nothing but the truth.
 
But, the UN delegation will arrive in Eritrea. Regardless what their agenda might be, the Eritrean people will expect nothing but justice that can bear peace from a visit by such high dignitaries of the world. The Eritrean people will be eager to offer a cooperating spirit to facilitate a peaceful resolution of this conflict. What they will not do and they cannot be expected to do is that peace must come at their expense. The Eritrean people know from the long and harsh struggle for freedom that justice requires tremendous courage and sacrifice. They paid for the just cause of freedom and sovereignty with the highest sacrifice. The UN should know better than to offer Eritrea a crippled justice that cannot deliver a lasting peace to the peoples of Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.