The Eritrean PFDJ’s Head Criticizes the Ethiopian Opposition

Gulf Information Center

Khartoum

June30, 2005

The president of the ruling regime in Eritrea has explicitly referred to the danger of the Ethiopian and Eritrean oppositions to the regional security, according to the edition of yesterday of the independent Ethiopian “Tomar” newspaper. The newspaper has adapted some news from “Eritrea Profile,” the English language official mouth organ of the regime at which the regime’s president had clearly criticized the Ethiopian opposition. “The Ethiopian opposition has become a threat to the Eritrean sovereignty,” the Ethiopian newspaper quoted the president of the regime. The regime’s president violently criticized the Ethiopian opposition after they had adopted the peaceful alternative to resolve its differences with the ruling coalition in Ethiopia.

Moreover, the regime’s president has directed charges to the ruling Ethiopian front for destabilizing the region and provoking ethnic and sectarian conflicts. “The regime’s president had requersted the G8 to not cast away the Ethiopian debts,” the Ethiopian Tomar quoted the regime’s president. “The Ethiopian government misuses the financial support which is offered to it by the industrial countries.”

In the same course, the regime’s head has called on the ruling front in Ethiopia to hand over the power to its opposition having admitted by its failure in the elections of last month, underlining that the Ethiopian people have already sorted out through the ballot boxes the matters of power.

 The Eritrean regime has been upset from the endangered transformations of democracy and changes in Ethiopia and Sudan. The worries of the regime from the changes in the region have been easily noticed in its interference into the affairs of the neighboring countries. It is recalled that the Eritrean regime has involved it self in the last rebellious events in the Eastern part of the Sudan; a matter which  has forced the Sudanese government to file a complaint against Eritrea to the Security Council of the United Nations.