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Eritrea: Making a Mockery of "Dialogue"
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Shabait.com (Asmara)
EDITORIAL
19 September 2007
Posted to the web 19 September 2007
Asmara
The prospect of peace is always most attractive, and that is why the words associated with peace are always eagerly welcomed. Holding discussions in which one can exchange ideas, as well as understand the other party's viewpoint, is one of the means that may lead to peace and dialogue. That is why those who desire peace gratefully welcome 'dialogue' or 'peace talks' before they have had the chance to thoroughly examine the motives and implications of them.
Particularly at times like these -when it has become the order of the day to augment one's interests by instigating conflicts- peace talks have become a way of delaying solutions and, more importantly, are being used to evade and obstruct the rule of law. The uncountable numbers of 'peace talks,' bearing different grandiose names, conducted over the past ten years in the Horn of Africa have seriously hampered possible solutions. The outcome of such talks in the Horn region clearly demonstrates to what extent the terms 'dialogue' and 'peace talks' have been manipulated and ridiculed.
The Eritrean-Ethiopian border issue has once and for all been legally resolved through a final and binding ruling. However, conspiracies have been devised to derail the case from its legal course in the name of seemingly plausible 'talks.' The push for fresh 'talks' while the border issue has been given a final ruling after a long legal debate, can have no other motive but to drag the case back to square one and keep it circling there. Naturally, questions like "what kind of talks?" and "for what purpose?" had been raised but remains yet to be answered. Although pathetic excuses such as 'building trust' are sometimes given, it remains that trust can only be built under the prevalence of the rule of law and not when the law is violated, when sovereign territories are occupied, and when people are displaced from their villages. There are also proposals for 'greetings exchange' but how can one shake hands with someone who is biting their own fingers? Thus, the answer still clearly and unmistakably remains: let the rule of law prevail and the ruling be implemented; then we can engage in as much talks as necessary. But since the driving motive behind the push for 'talks' is to evade the rule of law, attempts have been made to set aside the priority issue of implementation and instead jump into talks with no clear agenda.
It should be noted that the people and Government of Eritrea have no time to waste on 'talks' that have no reasonable objective or, to be more precise, talks which are empty and pointless. Indeed, compromising the time and fate of peoples by engaging in talks with no clear agenda would be an unpardonable crime. Hence, the only solution still remains to be the implementation of the final and binding EEBC ruling, on the ground. There can be no alternative solution!
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