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Press Release Acrobatics by the Minority Regime in Ethiopia will not change facts on the Ground

Written by Mike Seium

Friday, 26 October 2007

OK Let us see who is spinning when it comes to the EEBC ruling and the recent Report of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission. The Minority regime in Addis, to prolong it's hold on power as a means of survival has been turning the wheel over and over again as well as stealing every trick in the bag to convince people that it is not breaking the law that it promised to in Algeria in front of the international community. It can't hide the facts even if some special interest media groups sold by strong lobbyists who left Washington from public service forgetting those who elected them in office. We are talking about the Army, Gephardt team. Thank god that they were not elected for higher offices because the American people saw right through them. No mercenary media outlets will confuse the issue at hand either as all the details are written in the EEBC report in black and white and in simple facts. The decision is final and binding and the demarcation must begin. Here below are facts and not fiction as the Minority regime in Addis would like to have people believe, Eritrea's position on lifting restrictions on UNMEE in so far as they affect the EEBC: Eritrea recognizes UNMEE's essential and positive contribution to the process of demarcating the 13 April 2002 delimitation line, and pledges to assist UNMEE accordingly. On withdrawal from the TSZ in so far as the present position impinges on EEBC operations: The Government of Eritrea's position is that as soon as all of the arrangements for demarcation are in place, Eritrea will remove any Eritrean forces that might meet this description. On providing security assurances: Eritrea has previously provided security assurances in response to Commission instructions, and intends that these assurances should remain in effect unless the Commission determines that they are somehow insufficient or no longer relevant. On allowing free access to pillar locations: Eritrea has on no occasion interfered with any Commission attempt to access pillar locations, and pledges that in the future it will continue this policy. On the other hand the Zenawi Regime who has taken over another country Somalia and created chaos seems to be enjoying a free ride by the US Govt under the pretext of "war on Terror". This is a classic spin, using the "war on terror" to terrorize others and to break laws against those whom it can't terrorize like the State of Eritrea as the result of the strength and unity of it's gallant people. Ethiopia's minority regime has taken a position of prolonging the EEBC ruling by not following the rules and not doing what it promised to do which are: To indicate its unqualified acceptance of the 2002 Delimitation Decision without requiring broader ranging negotiations between the Parties; To lift restrictions on movement of EEBC personnel; To provide security assurances; To meet payment arrears; To allow free access to pillar locations. There is a reason to why this is happening and most people following this are smart and savvy enough to figure it out. The majority Ethiopians and majority Eritrean people have come to a conclusion that the Meles Zenawi regime is deceitful, opportunist and most of all a dictatorship put in place by a super power. Unless demarcation is done between Ethiopia and Eritrea there will not be a normalization and the only way to peace in the horn is normalization of people from the horn region , which must start with Ethiopia and Eritrea. To quote the President of Eritrea from his letter of September 5th, 2007 to sir Elihu Lauterpacht of the EEBC "Eritrea's consistent position has been that this process (EEBC ruling) should be managed as a legal one, consistently with international law" Mike seium Comments Add New Search RSS Only registered users can write comments!

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