EPDP Urges UN to Put Eritrea on its Agenda; Reminds General Assembly of Betrayal in 1950
2016-10-05 21:02:27 Written by EPDP Information Office Published in EPDP News Read 3403 times-
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In an urgent memorandum to UN General Assembly's Third Committee in New York, the Eritrean People's Democratic Party (EPDP) reminded the world body that there is no valid reason to stop the UN Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea to present its oral report to the General Assembly, as did the inquiry commission on North Korea before it.
Dated 4 October and addressed to Her Excellency Ms Maria Emma Mejia, the chairperson of the Third Committee in charge of managing matters related to the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly, the EPDP memorandum expressed its "shock and dismay" when it learned of the reported absence from the provisional agenda of the expected oral presentation of the inquiry commission which concluded that crimes against humanity were perpetrated in Eritrea during the past 25 years.
This modest call for your kind consideration and positive action on the Eritrean case is made on behalf of many Eritrean justice seekers anxiously waiting for an appropriate action of the UN General Assembly on the decisions and recommendations of the UN Human Rights Council following the oral presentation of the Inquiry Commission whose task cannot be completed before it reports to the General Assembly, as was the case to a similar inquiry on human rights situation in North Korea.
"As the human rights situation in Eritrea is very well known to you, this memo is not making any effort to explain the extremely alarming political and human rights condition prevailing in our country' the EPDP wrote hoping that the current 71st UN General Assembly will not remind Eritreans "of what the 5th Session of the General Assembly did to the Eritrean people's just cause in December 1950."
The EPDP appeal to the UN General Assembly went on quoting the then US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, who stated soon after the sham Eritrea-Ethiopia federation was adopted on 2 December 1950 that justice was not being done to the Eritrean people because of the "strategic interests" of other powers.
Meanwhile, Eritreans in North America are preparing a massive demonstration in New York on 27 October 2016, the day on which the UN Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea was/is expected to present its oral report to the General Assembly.
