Eritrea: OEA Hails Sudanese Peace Agreement

January 10, 2005

The Organization of Eritrean Americans (OEA), an association of American citizens from Eritrea, is very pleased to extend its warm congratulations to the government and people of Sudan on the occasion of signing the Sudanese Peace Agreement.

The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Treaty is not only fulfilling the expectations of the peoples of Sudan, but also the expectations and hopes of the peace loving brotherly peoples of the Horn of Africa in particular, as well as the entire continent of Africa.

OEA sincerely hopes that the Sudanese Peace Agreements will afford the people of Sudan greater security and stability without which no development could be achieved.

OEA would like to take this opportunity to call on all the witnesses and guarantors of the Sudanese Peace Agreements to exert maximum efforts to help the Sudanese parties in the implementation of the signed Agreements.

OEA takes this opportunity to congratulate the efforts exerted by the members of the Inter Government Authority for Development (IGAD) for sponsoring the negotiations and calls on the international community to support the parties to consolidate peace and rehabilitate the damages of the three decade long civil war.

OEA also reminds those who attended the signing ceremony to push for the full and unconditional implementation of other peace treaties signed by other nations in the Horn of Africa. An example would be the Algiers Peace Agreement, which is in jeopardy because of Ethiopia's continued refusal to implement the final and binding DECISION of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission.

OEA again congratulates the people of Sudan and urge the peoples and governments of the IGAD region to avail their continuing support for the Agreements so that the aspirations of the Sudanese people will be achieved.

ORGANIZATION OF ERITREAN AMERICANS (OEA)

600 L Street NW WASHINGTON D.C. 2001

EMAIL: ORG_ERITREANAMERICAN@YAHOO.COM