{"id":1256,"date":"2011-11-08T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/08\/eritrea-government-appeals-to-un-in-bid\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:41:17","slug":"eritrea-government-appeals-to-un-in-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/08\/eritrea-government-appeals-to-un-in-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"ERITREA: The Government appeals to UN in bid to prevent sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 \u2013 Eritrea\u2019s president has asked for a personal hearing before the UN Security Council in a bid to head off new sanctions over alleged support for Somalia\u2019s Islamist rebels, diplomats said.<\/div>\n
Rival Ethiopia has been calling for tougher action against Eritrea for several months after its neighbor was linked to a plot to bomb an African Union summit in Addis Ababa.<\/div>\n
Kenya is now accusing Eritrea of arming Somali Islamist rebels and UN Security Council members Nigeria and Gabon have tabled a resolution calling for sanctions on Eritrea\u2019s mining industry and remissions from abroad.<\/div>\n
Eritrea\u2019s President Issaias Afeworki has asked to speak to the 15-nation Security Council in New York in a move opposed by the United States.<\/div>\n
Some Western nations oppose new sanctions, fearing such restrictions could harm the civilian population, diplomats said.<\/div>\n
Afeworki has denied Kenya\u2019s accusations that his country arms Shebab rebels in Somalia and that it was involved in a plot, outlined in a UN sanctions committee report, to bomb the summit in the Ethiopian capital in January.<\/div>\n
The Security Council has not yet formally replied to the president, but diplomats said the United States and other council members feared that his presence at a meeting would only increase tensions.<\/div>\n
\u201cIf Afeworki is at a meeting, then how could we stop the leaders of Ethiopia and other countries coming,\u201d one Western diplomat said.<\/div>\n
The United States has in the past spoken out in favor of new sanctions.<\/div>\n
But envoys from other members of the council say action against mining \u2014 the mainstay of Eritrea\u2019s tiny, crippled economy \u2014 would only harm the country\u2019s five million people.<\/div>\n
No date has yet been set for a meeting on Eritrea, but the six-nation Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, an East African regional bloc, is stepping up pressure for a decision, diplomats said.<\/div>\n
The draft resolution calls on all states to \u201cprohibit investment\u201d in Eritrea\u2019s key mining industry and ban the imports of gold and other resources from Eritrea, according to a copy of a draft resolution seen by AFP.<\/div>\n
The action would also seek to ban the collection of a two percent tax on money sent home by Eritreans abroad.<\/div>\n
SOURCE: Agence France Presse<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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