In addition to his criticising past US administrations, Eritrean FM Osman Saleh’s letter to the UN Security Council accused the Biden admin of ‘stoking further conflict and destabilization’.
Eritrea’s foreign minister blamed US administrations that supported the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) for the last 20 years for the current war in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, saying that blaming Eritrea for the fighting was unfounded.
Osman Saleh, in a letter to the UN Security Council circulated on Monday, accused President Joe Biden’s administration of “stoking further conflict and destabilization” through interference and intimidation in the region. “The apparent objective of these acts is to resuscitate the remnants of the TPLF regime,” he said.
The TPLF led the coalition that ruled Ethiopia for nearly three decades until Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed rose to power in 2018. Abiy alienated the TPLF in part by trying to make peace with its archenemy, Eritrea, then sent Ethiopian government troops into the region in November.
Thousands are estimated to have been killed in the war that has sent a third of the region’s 6 million people fleeing. The government forces are now allied with soldiers from neighbouring Eritrea, who are blamed for many atrocities.