From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Tue Sep 30 2008 - 09:38:15 EDT
Eritrea tells UN debate that United States causes or lengthens crises
worldwide29 September 2008 – The "misguided and domineering policies" of the
United States are causing and exacerbating crises around the world,
Eritrea's Foreign Minister told the General Assembly today, calling for
collective international action to check the power of Washington.
"The fingerprints of the sole superpower are discernible in most of the
conflict situations that are raging in many parts of our globe with the
deleterious economic, financial and humanitarian ramifications that they
invariably entail," Osman Saleh *told* (
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/pdf/eritrea_en.pdf ) the final day of
the Assembly's annual General Debate.
He accused the US of adopting a "management by crisis" approach, citing the
ongoing Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict, the fighting and humanitarian suffering
engulfing Somalia, troubles in Sudan and the recent border clashes between
Djibouti and Eritrea as examples of where Washington had initiated or
perpetuated troubles or blocked options for solution.
"These days, candid efforts are not exerted to prevent and manage conflicts.
On the contrary, crises are deliberately spawned and allowed to fester so
that their 'management' would provide the United States with the opportunity
and latitude for control in a situation of permanent instability.
"The absence of countervailing forces in a unipolar world has only
aggravated the situation. Principal among these is the weakness of the
United Nations to pursue an independent line and act as a bulwark of robust
multilateralism."
Mr. Saleh said the US too often cited the war on terrorism as the reason for
its actions, even though that war "has long been derailed from its original
objectives and intentions" to suit other purposes.
"This untenable state of affairs cannot go on and should not be tolerated.
The human sufferings have been, and are, too great; the time too long. In
the event, collective international efforts to check US excesses are timely
and imperative…
"The perils of unchecked unipolarism have become glaringly obvious in the
past years. This reality can only accentuate the need for bolstering the
United Nations, to make it a democratic and a robust institution of
multilateralism through prolonged and concerted collective efforts."
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