“Eritrea has indeed borne the brunt of this unfair international order through illicit sanctions; the use of surrogate forces to create a situation of permanent conflict and instability; as well as; the weaponization of human rights to isolate and ostracize the young nation.” BY FM OSMAN SALEH | MOI ERITREA Mr. President, Honorable Heads of […]
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BY ABDI LATIF DAHIR | QUARTZ AFRICA World leaders gather in New York this week to tackle a plethora of global problems, from climate change and migration to humanitarian disasters and war. Amid all these challenges, there is at least one positive note: The Horn of Africa’s swift and crucial diplomatic turnaround.
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BY FOREIGN MINISTER OSMAN SALEH President of the General Assembly Mr. Secretary General Excellencies and distinguished delegates, It is another year and another session of the UN General Assembly. We meet in the same assembly hall and deliver our addresses from the same podium. Yet, no modicum of protocol can mask the gaping divide in our […]
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BY SIMON WELDEMICHAEL The 72nd regular session of the UN General Assembly started at UN Headquarters on Tuesday, 12 September 2017. It has been announced that the General debate will be open on Tuesday, 19 September 2017, with a focus on the theme, “focusing on People: Striving for peace and a decent life for all […]
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By AFP, South Sudan’s president will snub a UN meeting aimed at boosting peace efforts because he feels he was summoned there like a “schoolboy”, a minister said Friday. United Nation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invited President Salva Kiir and his arch-rival, rebel leader Riek Machar, to New York later this month in a bid to […]
Continue ReadingBy UN News Center, The United Nations is debilitated by chronic weaknesses and shortcomings and must be reformed, the Foreign Minister of Eritrea today said, urging also that sanctions against its country be lifted. “The 21st century requires a revitalized United Nations that transcends a bipolar or uni-polar world order and that is firmly rooted in the […]
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Eritrea has solid evidence that individuals and groups posing as “human rights defenders,” representatives of at least one UN agency and officials of some governments are implicated. By TesfaNews, A High-level Eritrean delegation lead by Foreign Minister H.E. Osman Saleh is participating at UN general assembly high level Meeting on combating Human Trafficking in New […]
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