|
 Network
of Eritreans for Constitutional
Governance
(NECG)
UN
Invokes Chapter VII To Rein In Eritrea Tyrant Gone Amok!
23
December 2009
Eritrea Daily
Eritrea
tyrant Isias Afewarki about to be hit by Chapter VII of UN Charter
today! Merry
Christmas
and a happy
Sanctions Day,
sir!
In matters Somalia and
Djibouti in particular and the Horn of Africa by extension, the
United Nations has it enough with Eritrea tyrant Isias Afewarki!
Today, the UN Security Council will invoke Chapter VII of the UN
Charter to rein in Eritrea tyrant gone amok! Acting under Chapter
VII, it is expected that the Council will adopt overwhelmingly a
resolution to impose sanction against Afewarki and all and any thing
that has to do with Afewarki’s tyrannical clique.
Welcome
to Chapter VII, self-styled-president-for-life Isias Afewarki. Merry
Christmas
and a happy
Sanctions Day,
sir! Now,
following is a sample of today's media reports in this matter from
AFP:
UN
poised to slap sanctions on Eritrea
By
Gerard Aziakou (AFP) – 7 hours ago
UNITED
NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council is expected
Wednesday to slap an arms embargo on Eritrea and impose targeted
sanctions on its leaders for allegedly aiding Somali rebels and
threatening neighboring Djibouti.
Diplomats
say the 15-member body will vote overwhelmingly to pass a
Ugandan-drafted resolution to ban weapons sales to and from Eritrea
and impose travel restrictions on, and freeze the assets of, the
country's political and military leadership.
Libya,
the lone Arab member of the council and the current chair of the
pan-continental African Union (AU) bloc, is the only country expected
to vote against the resolution or abstain, they told AFP.
The
draft demands that Asmara "cease all efforts to destabilize or
overthrow, directly or indirectly" the Transitional Federal
Government (TFG) in Somalia.
It
urges member states to conduct inspections on their territory,
including seaports and airports, of "all cargo to and from
Somalia and Eritrea" if there is reasonable grounds to believe
it contains banned weapons or related material.
And it
presses Eritrea to withdraw troops immediately from disputed
territories along its frontier with Djibouti and engage in diplomatic
efforts leading to "a mutually acceptable" settlement of
their long-running border dispute.
The
text further calls on all member states, in particular Eritrea, to
stop "arming, training and equipping armed groups (including
hardline Islamic militants in Somalia) that aim to destabilize the
region or incite violence and civil strife in Djibouti."
It
directs UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to report within 180 days on
Asmara's compliance with the provisions of the resolution.
In a
letter sent this month to Security Council chair and Burkina Faso
counterpart Michel Kafando, Eritrea's UN ambassador Araya Desta urged
all members, "to use their influence to ensure the rejection of
this draft resolution in its entirety."
He
accused Washington of being, "the main architect of this
resolution," which he said, "has no factual or legal
justifications.
"The
UN Security Council cannot penalize Eritrea for its views simply
because (Asmara) does not toe or conform to Washington's policy
choices and preferences," Desta charged.
Both
the AU and the east African Inter-governmental Authority for
Development (IGAD) bloc, which groups Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Somalia, Sudan and Uganda, have been calling since July for UN
sanctions against Eritrea for backing Somali rebels.
The
United States has blamed Eritrea for fanning the violence in Somalia,
a country that has not known peace for nearly two decades. A UN
monitoring group has detailed how Asmara supplies arms and cash to
Somali opposition forces.
Somalia's
wobbly transitional government controls virtually no territory and
has been unable to govern the country due to constant and fierce
fighting with hardline Islamist militias.
On
Eritrea's border dispute with Djibouti, the draft reiterates the
Security Council's call in Resolution 1862 adopted in January that
Asmara pull out its forces and all their equipment from disputed
territories and ensure that no military presence or activity is
pursued in the area.
That
resolution had given Eritrea five weeks to pull out.
The
dispute over the Ras Doumeira promontory on the shores of the Red Sea
last flared up in June 2008 after previous clashes in 1996 and 1999.
It has
assumed a greater strategic significance because both France and the
United States have bases the former French colony. The US has more
than 1,200 troops stationed in Djibouti, which hosts an
anti-terrorism task force in the Horn of Africa.
Read
draft resolution here.
| 
