State of Eritrea
Ambassador Araya Desta
Eritrea has been a member of the United Nations since May 28, 1993. It has never served as an elected member of the Security Council. Araya Desta has served as Eritrea’s Permanent Representative to the UN since December 2005. The following is excerpted from a December 15, 2009, letter from Ambassador Desta to the UN Security Council. The UN Security Council has been discussing, in the past few weeks, a draft resolution to impose a series of sanctions against Eritrea. The expert-level discussions appear to be almost complete, and the authors of the draft resolution are pushing for its adoption…
