By Amanuel Biedemariam, The history of the UN is one of corruption and infectiveness. During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union had competing global agendas and interests. As a result the UN was irrelevant, unable to pursue its stated purpose because it lacked the mandate, leadership, funding and principled organizational structure worthy […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingBy Matthew Russell Lee (Inner City Press), After the Eritrea meeting of the UN Security Council on July 19, Eritrea’s Mission to the UN reached out to offer an interview with Yemane Ghebreab, special political adviser to President Isaias Afwerki. Afwerki had met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on July 8 in Juba, the day […]
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