{"id":12546,"date":"2022-12-30T15:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/open-letter-to-foreign-affairs-magazine"},"modified":"2022-12-30T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:58:06","slug":"open-letter-to-foreign-affairs-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/open-letter-to-foreign-affairs-magazine","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Foreign Affairs Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Foreign Affairs Magazine published an article entitled: \u201cEthiopia\u2019s Hard Road to Peace\u201d, by former US Special Envoy, Jeffrey Feltman, on 26 December this week.<\/p>\n

The misleading title notwithstanding, Feltman\u2019s underlying and transparent intentions are to stoke a new and wider war in the region.<\/p>\n

This is not surprising in many ways. Indeed, when Feltman was appointed as the US Special Envoy to the HOA, his first and awkward public act was to disparage and label in very pejorative terms, his potential hosts \u2013 the governments and leaders of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. For him, the Tripartite Summits between Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia were malign architectures that posed, in his warped perspective, \u201ca threat to regional peace and stability\u201d. The historic Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace & Friendship Agreement was cast in the same negative light.<\/p>\n

These provocative public pronouncements could not be shrugged off, even then, as diplomatic gaffes that stemmed from lack of tact or experience. They illustrated, from the get-go, the sinister objectives of his mission which boiled down to resuscitating the TPLF under any means and through various subterfuges.<\/p>\n

Feltman\u2019s pipedreams have of course been fully frustrated with the demise of the TPLF. His irrational wrath is thus directed, at this point in time, mainly towards Eritrea.<\/p>\n

Feltman\u2019s current fixation on Eritrea is, indeed, borderline obsession. In the article that was supposed to discuss Ethiopia\u2019s peace process, he cites Eritrea over thirty times and President Isaias Afeworki, over twenty-five times. He purposely tries to demonize Eritrea; it\u2019s leadership and its people by constantly harping on, and dubbing Eritrea, as the \u201clargest potential spoiler\u201d. This is a glaring case of the \u201cthe pot calling the kettle black\u201d. In its history, even prior to its independence, Eritrea has always been consistent and principled on the promotion of regional peace and stability; on building mechanisms and modalities for mutually beneficial ties of regional economic cooperation; on concerted and collective regional action to fight and root out fundamentalist extremism etc.<\/p>\n

Unable to control his frustrations, Feltman veers towards ghastly acts of extreme witch-hunting of Eritrea. He advocates for \u201cinternational solidarity and action\u201d to strangulate Eritrea. He recommends for the \u201cre-imposition\u201d of the illicit UNSC sanction against Eritrea as well as stripping it of its sovereign seat at the UN HRC. He instigates Eritrea\u2019s neighbors in the Horn and wider Middle East\/Gulf Region to forfeit their natural interests and gang-up against this small country. He tries to foment discord and conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia through wicked insinuations and conjectures.<\/p>\n

And all the while, Feltman feigns oblivious of the origins and dynamics of TPLF\u2019s War of Insurrection and choice; why the region was plunged into this quagmire in the first place. In the event, it is important to re-emphasize these salient facts to put matters in proper perspective:<\/p>\n

These facts illustrate, beyond any shred of doubt, that Feltman\u2019s evil objectives are to wreck permanent and irreversible peace in our region. The burning question is whether this is his isolated stance or a common position, shared, perhaps with subtler packaging, by other circles in the US Administration.<\/p>\n

Embassy of the State of Eritrea<\/b>
\nTo the United States of America<\/b>
\nWashington, DC<\/b>
\n30 December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Eritrea<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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