Eritrea: diplomatic unrest after the loss of the war
Eritrea, Politics, 12/20/2000

Well- informed sources in the Eritrea's capital said that ambassador Hamid Hamad. Eritrea's former ambassador in Khartoum and the director of the Middle East department at he foreign ministry has resorted to Canada after he had left Eritrea since two months.

Meantime, the Eritrea's regime is making large- scale changes seemed to be linked to the defeat in the war with Ethiopia.

The sources explained that Eritrea's prime minister exempted ambassador hamid from his post and froze his membership at the executive committee of the ruling people's front. Earlier, Hamid had the post of Eritrea's ambassador in Riyadh and he was also before a governor for Kern province and worked for a long period of time at the office of the " the people's front for the liberation of Eritrea" in al-Khartoum before the liberation of Eritrea.

The sources did not explain the reasons which pushed Hamad to leave Eritrea and resort to Canada, but expected that this has had links to developments taken place inside the ruling front following the military defeat in the war with Ethiopia.

Source unveiled that decisions were issued earlier against Saleh Kekya ho was his country's ambassador to Sudan in 1994 and a director for Afourki's office, as well as against Sheikh al-Amin, member of the ruling front's executive committee. It was said that Saleh Kekya was appointed as a governor for Musawa' but he refused this position which he considered as an underestimation of his level of qualification.

Meantime, amendments and changes among Eritrea ambassadors abroad were made. The Eritrea's ambassador at the UN and to the Us were summoned. The Eritrea's ambassador in Washington had submitted a memorandum to President Asyas Afourki leaked to the media on the deterioration of conditions and the faults that led to Ethiopia's invasion of Eritrea.

There are rumors about differences between President Afourki and the Eritrea's ambassador at the UN, especially as it is believed on a large scale the western circles which have concern in Eritrea nominate him as a substitute to Afourki.

Also summoned to Asmara were the Ambassadors to Italy, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, China and Egypt and ambassadors to France, Belgium and Denmark were changed. However, new Eritrea's embassies will be opened for the first time in Holland, Australia, Switzerland and Denmark as well as the UN mission in Geneva.

Observers have linked between this vast movement among the Eritrea's embassies and ambassadors and the Ethiopian- Eritrea post-war phase, especially as the former foreign minister Haily Wild Tansa ' was exempted from his post two months ago after he declared his views in criticizing the Eritrea President and he talked about faults and practices that led to the war with Ethiopia and inflecting the military defeat Eritrea underwent.

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