Network of Eritreans for Constitutional Governance (NECG)

UN Did Not Deny Eritrea Tyrant's Involvement In Somalia

01 June 2009 – On May 15, 2009 in a unanimously passed statement that afternoon, the UN Security Council slammed Eritrea tyrant, Isias Afewarki, for his involvement in bloody attempts to unseat UN-recognized transitional government in Somalia.

“The Council expressed its concern over reports that Eritrea had supplied arms to those opposing the legitimate Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, in breach of the United Nations arms embargo, and called on the Sanctions Monitoring Group to investigate.” said UNSC statement at the time.

In a press conference at the UN on Friday, 29 May 2009, UN Special Representative to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, made the following remark regarding reports about Eritrea tyrant's support of Al Sahabab:

“As for the support of Eritrea for the Islamist group al-Shabab, he said that there was much talk of such involvement, but there was no way for him to monitor that situation or to know the truth of such a claim (emphasis editorially inserted). Asked about other foreign rebel fighters, he said the rebel leaders had extended a welcome to such fighters and there was wide information available on them.”

Now, tyrant Afewarki's footsoldiers are trying to spin Mr Ahmedou's inability to montor the said reports and “to know the truth of such claim”as a denial of UN claim! What a joke! When some one does not know the truth of a given claim, that does not automatically negate the claim? It means the person simply does not know the truth because “there was no way for him to monitor the claim.” Nice try, again! Good luck!

መርበብ ኤርትርያውያን ንቅዋማዊ መንግስቲ (ኤንቅመ)