Eritrea will not send peacekeepers to Somalia - radio
Feb 10, 2005; Eritrea Daily
Excerpt from
report by Somalia's private commercial Radio Shabeelle on 10 February
[Presenter] The
Eritrean government has said that it will not send its troops to Somalia
because of security reasons and fear of clashes with Ethiopian troops in
Somalia. Sahra Abdikarim has the details.
[Abdikarim]
Reports received from the regional body, IGAD [Inter-Governmental Authority on
Development], says the Eritrean government has resolved not to participate in
the peacekeeping mission in Somalia. Eritrean army officials have stopped
attending official military talks of the IGAD member states. [Passage omitted]
This issues
comes a day after the Kenyan government said that it would not deploy
peacekeepers in Somalia, citing unspecified reasons, but that it would send
international observers.
Source: Radio
Shabeelle, Mogadishu in Somali 1600 gmt 10 Feb 05
