Comments on: UN Considers Sanctions Against Eritrea

By: kidane

kidane — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:33:56 +0000

it is good for eritrean poeple, becouse 10 000s eritrean are in prison and moor than 1.7 million eritrean are living abroud, eritrean poeple can't talk any inside eritrea , becouse isaias governent is going kill them. isaias is dictator 100%. many eritrean left eritrean between 1998 date. this is the worst goverment we hade in the world. i had been in national service for 7 years after that in prison becose i asked for my right. this goverment we have in eritrea. he helpes for al-shebabe by sending eritrean solders in 2006, whay ?

i have been in somal for help the somalia goverment, what for i don't know yet. my brother is in prison now , my sister is shooting by the eritrean army in the border of sudan she id dead. she was going to sudan, but she can't. my young brother was in army , but he is in sudan now. my mother is dead becouse she was sad.

please pass my messege to any eritrean, and un must know if they can . UN can get 99 % evedence about what is going on in eritrea by dictator goverment of eritrea. isaias is denayed every thing. and there is 7 000 eritrean in sudan comp now. my massege to be sanction is good to eritrean goverment.

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:47:13 +0000

no to sanctions because if sanctions has to be imposed it is over ethiopia because ethiopia is over the sovernity of eritrean soil and in addition the others say there is no democracy but u have to know democracy is insidious not a one day process that you can impement and everone think before you act

By: Michael Ghebre

Michael Ghebre — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:05:26 +0000

If self reliance , freedom ,and social equality means dictator ship, corruption and betroyal, yes you may be right. but just have a look on what developments are being done in Eritrea ,in all aspects instead of hearing on the loud noises of barking dogs. If specially u are Eritrean please do not sell your soul,always remember our Eritrea is of our martyrs , not of the UN or any of its allies. UN was there before many years before our independence, while we were crying and fighting for justice ,and did nothing for that. read history bros.and u will not be allarmed on a dog barking.

By: Israel

Israel — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:04:24 +0000

sanction yes to Eritrean govern…must bcs the state of eritrea is not a state..Those are pure rebells
Eritrea without constitution
Eritrea more than 100000 prisoners without any reasons
Eritrea supporting islamic rebells in somalia
Eritrea worst dictator who kills and support Alshebab islamister in somalia.war with Ethiopia,djubutti,Sudan,yemeni.the maddog DIA have to the netherland hagg soon..thats all eritreans hopp.therfore we need peace in east africa rather than war DIA do with all our neighbors.
WE WISH SANCTION TO THE STATE OF ERITRA.NOW NOW NOW

By: Sick and Tired of Being a Scapegoat

Sick and Tired of Being a Scapegoat — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:48:23 +0000

Eritrea: Press Release By Ministry of Foreign Affairs

10 July 2009

press release

Asmara — The Security Council released a presidential statement on Somalia yesterday, 9 July 2009. The statement does not merit an elaborate response as the true facts surrounding the matter are well-known indeed. For the record, however, the factual and legal dimensions underpinning the whole episode are underlined bellow.

The Security Council does not possess providential authority. The Security Council is not above the law. The Security Council cannot supplant international law and the Charter of the United Nations. The Security Council cannot violate the sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence, and unity of Somalia in an arbitrary manner. As such, the Security Council has no legal mandate or authority to dub as “legitimate” and impose a “government” whose writ is confined to few suburbs in the capital on the Somali people against their will.

In the same vein, the following simple questions can be raised:

Does the Security Council recognize governments established in “Somaliland”, “Puntland” or Kismayo as sovereign or transitional entities? If the Security Council does afford them its recognition, then what is the legal basis of its decisions? If it does not recognize them, what are the reasons?

What about the Security Council resolution 1725 (2006) passed on December 6, 2006, which calls for ” respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence, and unity of Somalia”?

The Government and People of Eritrea have not recognized, do not recognize and will not recognize any government that is externally imposed on Somalia against the choice of the Somali people and in contravention of international law as well as the Charter of the United Nations.

In the event, the statement outwardly sponsored by the United Kingdom and Uganda and released in the name of presidency of the Security Council is devoid of any legality.

Instead of making statements that contradict each other and that are predicated on multiple standards which subsequently diminish its stature, the Security Council should have taken commensurate legal action against all those who prolong and exacerbate the suffering of the Somali people, and, the parties that are destabilizing the Horn of Africa region.

Indeed, the Security Council should have supported a genuine political process that is not encumbered by external interferences and that respects the choice of the whole Somali people in “Somaliland”, “Puntland”, Kismayo and other parts of Somalia as well as the Diaspora rather than postponing the solution time and again or seeking scapegoats to cover its failure.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Asmara

10 July 2009