{"id":25690,"date":"2024-01-06T18:13:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T18:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/department-of-state-again-misdesignates-eritrea-in-annual-routine"},"modified":"2024-01-06T19:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T19:05:34","slug":"department-of-state-again-misdesignates-eritrea-in-annual-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/department-of-state-again-misdesignates-eritrea-in-annual-routine","title":{"rendered":"Department of State Again Misdesignates Eritrea in Annual Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Eritrea is a nation known for its centuries-old religious harmony in a neighborhood beset by religious conflicts and tensions. Ethnically, Eritrea has nine groups and is roughly split 50-50 between Christian and Muslim\u2013a formula for disaster from Africa to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to South Asia: but not in Eritrea. Eritrea stands as a model of religious tolerance. In most Eritrean villages across the country, one can see a church and a mosque standing side by side, and people breaking bread together attesting to the harmonious coexistence of the two major religions in the country.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s to this Eritrea U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said twenty years ago, \u201cEritrea is an oasis of peace and civility and a beacon of hope astride the Horn of Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, the U.S. Department of State continues its politically-motivated annual routine of designating innocent, independent-minded nations such as Eritrea as \u201cCountry[ies] of Particular Concern (CPC)\u201d \u2014a practice based on neither fact nor logic.<\/p>\n

The National Council of Eritrean Americans (NCEA) condemns in the strongest terms the January 4, 2024, State Department\u2019s re-designation of this young African nation as a \u201ccountry of particular concern\u201d vis-a\u0300-vis religious freedom.<\/p>\n

This whole routine of mis-designating Eritrea began in 2004 as a ploy to undermine Eritrea and help Ethiopia at that time escape from its international treaty obligation to implement the final-and-binding Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) border ruling. The CPC designation came with an arms embargo designed to weaken Eritrea\u2019s self-defense and to undermine the Algiers Agreement and the EEBC boundary delimitation ruling which were seen as favoring Eritrea.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the NCEA calls on the U.S. Department of State to bring this annual hypocritical and unjustified routine of misdesignating innocent Eritrea to an end. To accuse Eritrea of religious intolerance shows how little the concerned US officials know about Eritrea, its people, and its values.<\/p>\n

January 6, 2024<\/b>
\nThe National Council of Eritrean Americans (NCEA)<\/b><\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Eritrea. Eritrea is a nation known for its centuries-old religious harmony in a neighborhood beset by religious conflicts and tensions. Ethnically, Eritrea has nine groups and is roughly split 50-50 between Christian and Muslim\u2013a formula for disaster from Africa to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to South Asia: but not in Eritrea. 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