If Woyanne starts war, the people of Ethiopia, Somalia, and all people of the Horn of Africa will stand with the Eritrean army and crush the tribal junta.
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By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Eritrea’s U.N. envoy said on Thursday he saw no need for U.N. peacekeepers to remain on its border with Ethiopia, despite U.N. fears that a total withdrawal could spark a new war in the Horn of Africa.
“We don’t need UNMEE anymore,” Eritrean Ambassador Araya Desta told Reuters in a telephone interview. He was referring to the U.N. mission on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border.
“The UNMEE issue is a dead issue,” he said.
Responding to fears of a repeat of the two countries’ 1998-2000 war, Desta said Eritrea was not planning to attack Ethiopia. But he warned Addis Ababa Woyanne that his country was prepared to fend off any invasions into Eritrean territory.
“If the Ethiopians Woyannes invade us, we’ll be forced to defend ourselves,” Desta said. [Ambassador Araya, please don’t call these Woyannes “Ethiopians.” You know they hate Ethiopia.]
UNMEE has already withdrawn nearly 1,700 troops and military observers who for the past seven years had been trying to prevent another war between the Horn of Africa neighbors.
Some 164 peacekeepers are left in Eritrea to guard equipment, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report circulated to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.
The 1,700 peacekeepers had been stationed in a 15.5-mile (25-km) buffer zone inside Eritrea. But Asmara turned against UNMEE because of U.N. inability to enforce rulings by an independent commission awarding chunks of Ethiopian-held territory, including the town of Badme, to Eritrea.
UNMEE pulled most of its troops out of Eritrea after the government cut off access to fuel and restricted deliveries of food and other essential supplies. Asmara denies this and accuses UNMEE of enabling Ethiopia to occupy its territory. that a total withdrawal of UNMEE could lead to a new war.
Most UNMEE troops have been sent home temporarily, Ban said in the report, obtained by Reuters.
There are also still a few peacekeepers on the Ethiopian side of the border, though Addis Ababa Woyanne had indicated that it does not want to be alone in hosting U.N. troops.
Ban’s report said Eritrea was refusing to discuss the issue of the future status of UNMEE and accused Asmara of a “military occupation” of the official buffer zone between the countries established under the cease-fire agreement.
Desta said his government had not prepared an official response to the report but he vehemently denied that Eritrean forces had illegally seized the territory, which he said was land that belonged to Eritrea.
(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
11 thoughts on “Eritrea doesn’t want UN troops on border”
It is telling how the UN is nothing but a tool for certain “first world powers”, what has UNMEE got to do with staying in sovereign Eritrean territory when the UNSC failed to enforce a world court ruling? This shows us the UNMEE was all along used to help Woyanne occupy sovereign Eritrean territory. What is amazing is the next to last paragraph saying that Eritrea is militarily occupying the “buffer zone” which is solely in sovereign Eritrean territory. Now ladies and gentlemen how can any sane person say Eritrea is occupying its own territory? Or did they really think their 1700 troops were so strong that they could protect Eritrea which has a military that is capable of defending its own territory all along?
The EPLF is reaping what it has sown in Ethiopia. The TPLF is the brainchild of the EPLF and now the EPLF is facing the backlash. You know a dog can bite its owner and this is what Meles Zenawi is doing to his former boss Isaias.
Hi Elias,
You said “Ambassador Araya, please don’t call these Woyannes “Ethiopians.” You know they hate Ethiopia.”
Not a single Eritrean official addresses the Adwa-mafia-family as “Ethiopians” or as “Ethiopian government”.
It is always “Weyane”.
But, I guess, Araya did not think it is, politicaly, correct to say “Weyane” to an international media.
UN has no power. it is USA’s buchila. UN is barking where there is USA’s interst . UN is teethless dog. IF there is UN , COULD WEYANE invade somalia and colonize now? could USA invade irqa and could the death of 1m ppl and the displacement of 5 m ppl? UN SHOULD BE ABANDONED FROM EARTH.
YOU WISH KOMATA LEBA !
Weyane is there to RULE the horn of Africa for quite a considerable time in the future! The sum of 1000 LOSERS like the reincanrnated Dergists(MOST KINIJIT or KibiZhit members), Shabia, ONLF, Alshabab,Islamic court do NOT make a single winner. All cowards!
PROUD to Have WEYANE as my own leader! WEYANE IS OUR OWN CHOSEN NAME and we prefer and love to be named so!
WEYANE WILL keep neutralising all the enemies, domestic or foreign! As long as MELES WENDU keeps stemming the tide of these bunch of losers, NO doubt we can stay at ARAT KILO palace for the coming 50+ years!
GOD BLESS OUR LEADER PM ZENAWI!
VIVA WEYANE !
I salute you Elias. Yes we shall stand with our Eritrean neighbours to squash the rodents of the horn untill the whole horn is officially weyane free.
God please please show me the weyane,the son of the Nazis, destruction and demise.God Please make them history
Sit down and wish it. Lazy ass ! you will die crying.
As the age old English saying goes, no pain no gain !
The UN approved the reintegration of Eritrea with Ethiopia in 1952. In 1993, it approved the total separation and independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia, saying that Ethiopia had colonianized Eritrea.Throughout Ethiopia’s existence as a nation, Eritrea had been an integral part of Ethiopia before it was snatched by the Italians and stayed the latter’s colony for about 60 years. Now, neither marriage nor divorce seems to warrant genuine peace; the only reasonable route left for both parties is to come a negotiating table by themselves and solve their issues amicably. I think Ethiopia has the upper hand, as fatherly figure to initiate the negotiation. Enough of blaming others! Let us take responsiblity as good Africans! After we need each other. There is no total independence, but only interdependence in this global econmy. My plea is that ONLF, OLF and all other LFs come together and make a new and united Africa. God bless Africa.
Hi Elias
Yes we don’t want the presence of so called un(I use small
letters deliberately)because it is a symbolic entity which does not have power on its own. They tried to get out through the border illegaly. The Eriterian government stop them, that was smart and let them go legally through the doors as they come. Useless ones we don’t want them.
GOBEZE and teshome, you are the sold our bandas. your bloody criminals are bleeding from all sides. you got big belly, you can not see your masters bleeding. WE will crash your bandawi spirit for once and for all. the foreign mecernarries will be taken to an internatiuonal court for their crime in both somalia and in ethiopia. now every body knows you very well. you will not have any single place to hidde your selfes as you did before in sudan. the joint forces of ethiopia along with our eritreans brother will come and crash your divle spirit which is trying to kill ethiopia as a nation.