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Foreign Intervention Will Only Destabilize Country

Shabait.com (Asmara)
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December 1, 2006
Posted to the web December 1, 2006

By Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Asmara
The Security Council is mulling over a draft resolution that purports to
sanction military intervention by foreign forces to prop up one political
entity in Somalia.
The Security Council is of course empowered to take effective measures to
maintain and safeguard regional peace and security. The ill-advised resolution
in question will however exacerbate the civil strife that has bedeviled Somalia
for the past fifteen years and plunge the country into an intractable quagmire.
The legality of the purposed measure is also dubious. The fact is the
"Transitional Government" never had popular legitimacy when it was constituted
in the first place and does not have the support of the Somali people at this
time. In the event, the Security Council cannot trample on the expressed choice
of a sovereign people to impose a discredited political entity of its liking.
The contention that such a measure was recommended by IGAD is, again, not borne
out by the facts. There is no consensus within IGAD as its seven member
countries remain divided on polarized positions. As we have underlined on
various occasions before, allegations that Somalia has become the "epicenter of
fundamentalist terrorism" or an arena "for a proxy war between Eritrea and
Ethiopia" are deliberate distortions peddled by certain forces who wish to
perpetuate the chaos and turmoil in Somalia and to prevent its reconstitution
as a viable and linked State.
In the circumstances, the Government of Eritrea calls on members of the
Security Council to refrain from taking ill-advised measures fraught with
dangerous implications for peace and security in Somalia.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Asmara
December 1, 2006


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