Eritrea: You made an error over Somalia -Eritrea tells Uganda
During a face-to-face meeting at Massawa port on Tuesday , the Eritrean government Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki told his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni he was making an error over sending peace keepers to Somalia.Eritrea urged Uganda to pull out of Somalia after taking the “hasty step” of sending peace-keepers to the anarchic nation where the situation was deteriorating “President Isaias went on to say that Uganda needs to take corrective measures regarding the hasty step it took in sending troops to Somalia,” a statement on the Eritrean government website said.
According to the statement, Eritrean and Ugandan leaders agreed during the meeting that the situation in Somalia was “escalating from bad to worse” and external forces in Somalia were “complicating the issue.”Discussions also focused on “the need to let the Somali people decide their own affairs” and “the withdrawal of foreign forces from Somali territory, as well as (how to) uphold Somalia’s unity and territorial integrity,” according to the Eritrean Information ministry.-(New Vision)
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