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OVERSEAS TRIP
National Councillor Feri in Eritrea: "The country is in a strong development phase"
Fabian Hägler - az Aargauer Zeitung
Last updated on 02/08/2016 at 16:17
The az reaches the SP-National Councillor Yvonne Feri via Whatsapp in Eritrea. She sends an image and stressed that they have the impression that the country is in a strong development phase. The tour group also move partially without Honorary Consul Toni Locher.
People talk a lot about the journey of the Swiss politician group with Greens Councillor Susanne Hochuli and SP-National Councillor Yvonne Feri to Eritrea.
>From the trip itself but little is known so far only reported Hochuli in her column in the "Sunday newspaper" from Eritrea.
After criticism from refugee aid and SP Councillor Pascale Bruderer reported in "Tages-Anzeiger" on Monday also SP National Carlo Sommaruga to speak.
Hochulis utterance in Eritrea ruled no North Korean relations were "embarrassing". "The fact that it allows itself after just one week in the country, accompanied by the authority to judge the states in Eritrea, is scandalous," Sommaruga said, is the member of the foreign policy commission of the National Council.
Hochuli rejected the accusations against the "Tages-Anzeiger" back and stressed that the tour group was able to move freely, "I was never once accompanied by the Authority or the honorary consul, when I talked to people. Therefore, I correct the image of North Korea Africa. More I did not say to the circumstances in the country, "she was quoted as saying. For further inquiries Hochuli is not available.
Optimism in Eritrea
But the az reached Yvonne Feri, who arrived in Eritrea on Sunday. She describes her first impressions via Whatsapp. "I have held talks with various people. These tell very open about the country and the policy. "Feri writes that speaking English with their interlocutors, previously were needed no translator.
"I'm here for one day, so I can not say much," she notes. However, the SP-National Councillor has the impression that the country put in a strong development phase. "For example, new banknotes were printed on this year, the old have been replaced." In addition, the minimum wage had been increased.
On the question of the further program of the group writes Feri, on Monday stood a ride on the country and on the border with Ethiopia. And she sends a photo showing a village just outside the capital Asmara.
"We were without Honorary Consul Toni Locher Road", Yvonne Feri writes. Previously was criticized because Locher care best relations with the Eritrean Government, he could visitors from Switzerland show too positive and thus false picture of the country.
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