Network of Eritreans for Constitutional Governance (NECG)

Eritrea Tyrant Forces UN To End Peace Mission

31 July 2008, United Nations(EritreaDaily)--After resisting to cave in to Eritrea tyrant Afawerki’s multiple attempts to use UN peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia (UNMEE) as leverage to turn the UN into a Law Enforcement Agency of an independent international court of arbitration over which the UN has no legal authority, the Security Council threw in the towel and voted unanimously yesterday to end it all effective today.

• Expressing regret that Eritrea’s obstructions towards UNMEE had “reached a level so as to undermine the basis of the Mission’s mandate and compelled [it] to temporarily relocate from Eritrea”,

• Recalling its prior condemnation of Eritrea's hindrances, the Security Council said the country's ongoing obstruction of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has dealt a blow to the blue helmets' mandate,

The UN Security Council yesterday, 30 July 2008, terminated the mandate of the eight-year-old peacekeeping force monitoring the border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The Council voted unanimously to terminate the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), after restrictions placed on the peacekeeping operation by the latter country undermined its ability to carry out its mandate.

With that, Eritrea tyrant Afawerki has succeeded in creating a precedence for how to deal with UN peacekeeping mission if all doesn't go the hosting country's way. Don't tell them to leave, just force them out with impunity by paralyzing their ability to do their job.

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