By Shabait, Eritrean Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Osman Saleh met with the United Nations Secretary General H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, on 21 September 2015 in New York. In this meeting both parties held extensive discussions on international and regional peace and security, migration and human trafficking and other relevant issues of mutual concern. Minister […]
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By Reuters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday expressed deep disappointment after troubled talks to end more than a year of bloodshed in South Sudan broke off without a deal a day earlier. Friday’s adjournment was the latest impasse in negotiations over the world’s youngest country, where a political row between President Salva Kiir and […]
Continue Reading“In highlighting the importance of sports for youth refugees it is especially exciting to be joined today by Mr. Meb Keflezighi, who is himself a refugee from Eritrea and who, just last Monday, won the Boston Marathon. Mr. Keflezighi, last week’s race was a moving day for all involved. You moved everyone by moving the fastest! Congratulations on your […]
Continue ReadingBy UN Press Release, THE new Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations, Girma Asmerom Tesfay, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2011 until his latest appointment, Mr. Girma was his country’s Ambassador to the African Union. He served in Brussels as Ambassador to the European Union between 2007 and 2011, with […]
Continue ReadingMiscarriage of justice: Lift the US Designed and Politically Motivated Unjust Sanctions Against Eritrea By Kidane Eyob, To H.E. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, As a British national of Eritrean origin, I write to request that the politically motivated, unfair and unjust sanctions imposed on Eritrea be lifted without delay. By allowing the US government to […]
Continue ReadingThe run away Eritrean diplomat, Haile Menkorios, is now calling himself a South African after abandoning everything Eritrean but his name. By AP, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed veteran diplomat Haile Menkerios as the new U.N. representative to the African Union. U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said Friday that Menkerios will also continue his current […]
Continue ReadingBy Security Council Report, On 29 August, the Secretary-General reissued the report on Eritrea (S/2012/412) initially circulated to Council members on 8 June. In resolution 2023 of 5 December 2011 (which condemned Eritrean violations of resolutions 1844, 1862 and 1907 and imposed new measures to prevent Eritrea from using the diaspora tax or revenues from its mining sector to commit further violations), […]
Continue ReadingBy Matthew Russell Lee (Inner City Press), After Eritrea’s foreign minister Osman Saleh Mohammed met Monday with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, his Permanent Representative to the UN Araya Desta gave Inner City Press a read-out of the meeting. Ambassador Desta said that Somalia was discussed, with Eritrea explaining its view that in Somalia there […]
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