Letter Dated 27 May 2021 From The Permanent Representative Of Eritrea To The United Nations Addressed To The President Of The Security Council≪


  • Reference: S/2021/510
Annex to the letter dated 27 May 2021 from the Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

"The current situation in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia is the direct and cumulative consequence of misguided measures pursued, by successive United States Administrations in the last two decades, to prop up and embolden the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to flagrantly violate international law with impunity and to indulge in acts of continuous regional destabilization. 

The United States marshalled its diplomatic clout in support of the TPLF regime when the latter rejected the Security Council-guaranteed Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission final and binding award of 13 April 2002. The TPLF regime not only continued to occupy sovereign Eritrean territories, but persisted in its acts of belligerence by intermittently launching provocative military a ssaults against Eritrea in the period thereafter. 

Not only were these acts tolerated through blanket United States diplomatic succour, but Security Council sanctions, including an arms embargo, were imposed on Eritrea on spurious pretexts and in contravention of Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. On the contrary, the United States went out of its way to apply a waiver on its own sanctions regime to allow a TPLF arms purchase from North Korea. As it happened, a heavy weapons shipment destined for Ethiopia, and that was impounded on the high seas in 2009, was released and allowed to reach its destination."

Under the circumstances, the Government of Eritrea urges the Security Council to take appropriate measures to redress this injustice. 

(Signed) 
Osman Saleh

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