Solution for War Ravaged Horn of Africa Rests on Constructive Engagement, not Sanctions. Stop Scapegoating Eritrea.
December 2, 2011
Mr. President,
I am outraged that your ambassador at the UN, Susan Rice, is pushing the Security Council to place more sanctions against the people of Eritrea. This latest call for sanctions, like the one in 2009, is politically motivated and doesn’t serve US national interest.
The allegations being thrown at Eritrea are pure fabrication. The charges, concocted by Ethiopia, are groundless. For example, the Ethiopian accusation of a “bombing plot of an African Union session in Addis Ababa” like what a US embassy cable from 2006 exposed is a pure fabrication by the Ethiopia government. The SEMG report’s main actor of this fictional pl