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“(IGAD) calls on the AU and UN Security Council to fully implement the existing sanctions and impose additional Sanctions on the Eritrean regime
Addis Ababa
(Sunatimes) The East African regional block, Inter-Governmental Authority on
Development (IGAD) on Monday called on the AU and UN Security council to impose
further sanction against the Eritrean regime for destabilizing the Horn of
African region.
The IGAD assembly of state and Government held
Extraordinary Summit here in Addis Ababa under the chairmanship of Ethiopian
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
The Assembly, which was attended by leaders of
member countries including Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia
as well as AU High Level Implementation Panel and IGAD’s Executive Secretary,
also commended the deployment of Ethiopia’s troops in the Sudanese deputed
region of Abyei.
“We strongly condemns the activities of the state
of Eritrea that has taken an active part in destabilizing the region by
supporting extremists and other elements,” IGAD said in a statement issued
after the meeting.
IGAD also called on the UN Security Council to
take “all appropriate measures to ensure that the regime in Asmara stops its
destabilization activities in the Horn of Africa”.
“(IGAD) calls on the AU and UN Security Council to
fully implement the existing sanctions and impose additional Sanctions on the
Eritrean regime specially on those economic and mining sectors that the regime
depends on including the Eritrean Diaspora as well as ensuring compliance with
previous decisions of the UN,” said the statement adding further calls on UNSC
to extend the mandate of monitoring team on Eritrea and Somalia.
Apart from the activities of the State of Eritrea,
the Assembly has also considered the progress on the implementation of
Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by the two combatant parties of
Sudan in 2005 and the current Development in Somalia.
IGAD also welcomed the agreement between both
parties of South and Northern Sudan for the deployment of forces to guarantee
stability in Abyei and other border areas.
“IGAD further commends the Ethiopian government
for offering troops for deployment. Also, we welcome the UNSC resolution that
authorized the deployment and urges the UNSC to provide all the necessary
logistics to enable expeditious deployment,” the statement added.
IGAD made a similar call for sanction and punitive
measures against Eritrea, after which the country was slapped with an arms
embargo, travel restrictions and asset freezes for some of the country's top
officials by the UN Security Council in 2010.
By
Abdirizak and Ahmed Muse
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IGAD TO IMPOSE SANCTION AGAINST ERITERIA
“(IGAD) calls on the AU and UN Security Council to fully implement the existing sanctions and impose additional Sanctions on the Eritrean regime