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Eritrea Monitoring Group's Credibility & Integrity
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H.E. Osman Saleh, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Eritrea, in his Statement
at the 69th Session if the UN General Assembly said that, while the world
had changed, the United Nations had remained "stuck in the past". Restoring
the relevance and credibility of the United Nations to meet the challenges
of the 21st Century called fundamental restructuring the Organization.
Eritrea's perspective was informed by its history.
At the end of the colonization era, when all African nations were granted
independence, Eritrea, then an Italian colony, was not. Instead, it was put
under British Administration for 10 years, and then federated with Ethiopia.
The Eritrean people had been denied the right to decolonization because of
United States' interests in the East Africa and Red Sea region. UN
Resolution 390 was proposed by the US, whose hegemony over the UN at that
time was almost total. It was the product of a mutuality of interest between
the American and Ethiopian governments, not the expression of the interests
and aspirations of the Eritrean people. John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of
State, made US position clear when he stated the following:
".From the point of view of justice, the opinion of the Eritrean people must
receive consideration. Nevertheless, the strategic interest of the US in the
Red Sea Basin and world peace make it necessary that the country by linked
with our ally Ethiopia."
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