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Eri-News Issue 30
Eri-News Issue 30
Can-Do People!
(Yikealo! kikewn eyu
ERI-NEWS
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Bi-Weekly Newsletter
Permanent Mission of the State of Eritrea to AU
and UNECA
Press Section
Eritrea Participated in the 18th COMESA Summit
The 18th Summit of the Heads of State
and Government of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA) was convened in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, on 30 and 31 March
2015. The Summit was held under the
theme Inclusive and Sustainable
Industrialization.
The Summit noted that annual intraCOMESA trade which stood at USD
3.1 billion in 2000, when the COMESA Free Trade Area was launched,
grew seven-fold by 2014 to USD 22.4
billion.
Vol 2. Issue 30
03 April 2015
Inside this issue:
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the State
of Eritrea
Press Statement on
Eritreas Stance on
the Situation in
Yemen
Eritreas Achievements on Gender
Equality Applauded
at a UN Side Event
Eritrea was represented at the Summit The 19th COMESA Summit will be
and the preparatory meetings by its held in Madagascar in 2016.
Permanent Mission to the AU and UNECA.
Contact Addresses:
Tel: +251-116620052
Fax:+251-116620011
Email:eritreanaumission@
gmail.com
P.o.Box: 5527
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Eritrean Mission to
AU& ECA
@EritreaAU
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Eritrea is aware that these allegations are deliberately and solely peddled for purposes of defamation.
5. Eritrea maintains that the "statements made by
Yemeni officials in the past few days" are part and
parcel of ongoing smear campaigns, essentially
concocted by certain intelligence agencies, and
that are routinely conducted to sully the image of
Eritrea especially in the Arab world.
6. Eritrea is keenly aware that insidious regurgitation
of these baseless allegations as "established facts"
by various news agencies, newspapers and journals is primarily designed to negatively influence
public opinion in the Arab world.
7. As it may be recalled, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the State of Eritrea had summoned
early this week, Yemen's Charg d'affaires to request an explanation of the statements made by
Yemeni authorities. The Yemeni diplomat flatly
refuted these statements as untrue further disclosing that the Yemeni Embassy in Asmara did not
receive calls and queries from any media outlet or
other interested party to ascertain Yemen's position.
8. Eritrea does not allow its islands, ports and territory for lease or sale. Eritrea reiterates that it is
indeed the only country in the region which has
not opened its doors for external intervention or
military bases since its independence.
9. Eritrea does not subscribe to polarizing policies of
military alliances and blocs. As such it neither endorses nor joins such groupings. Consequently, it
has no membership in associations of this nature.
10.Eritrea affirms that its doors are open for any
news media in the Arab world that wishes to ascertain the veracity of these allegations repeated
ad nauseam. These can be easily secured by requesting an entry visa to the country at the nearest
Eritrean Embassy.
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During the question and answer session, representatives from Kenya, South Africa, Somalia, Cameroon,
Italy and other states and organizations commended
Eritrea for its achievements in the empowerment of
women. They further underlined Eritreas experience
should be shared with and emulated by others.
The side event on the empowerment of women was
the second side-event organized by the Permanent
Mission of Eritrea to the UN and the UN Country
Team. In September 2014, a side-event was organized
to share Eritreas experiences in the successful
achievement of the three health related Millennium
Development Goals (4, 5 and 6).