Eritrea calls US human rights report defamatory | APNews

Eritrea claims that the US State Department’s 2023 human rights report on the country “once again peddles, louder this time, a litany of its usual, fallacious and long-debunked accusations.”

In a statement on Thursday, the Eritrean government says that “the general question is, of course, whether the United States has, in the first place, the credentials for an exclusive and innate legal and moral right to proselytize and accuse the entire world in human rights and governance issues.

He adds: “This is, in fact, the compelling reason why the Annual Report is mostly ignored as an anachronistic and banal exercise that does not provoke a serious response from most countries most of the time. . In fact, that’s what we’ve done in the past. Still, reminders can be helpful from time to time.”

The Eritrean Embassy in the United States categorically rejects the content, methodology, narrative and its inherent and “obvious ulterior motives” of the report, adding that “there is nothing new in the nature of the report that shows any deviation from the predictable vitriol against Eritrea “. .

He says the report, while focusing on the recent insurrection war in Ethiopia, “illustrates once again that it is neither the well-being of the Eritrean people nor the issues of regional peace and stability on the basis of legality that matter most to him.” matters to the United States.” .

Eritrea accuses past and present US administrations of compromising the country’s inalienable national rights in the interests of its overriding geostrategic interests.

“The current concern and top priority of the Biden Administration remains the singular and tenacious pursuit of these goals at the expense of lasting peace, stability and meaningful cooperation in our region,” he says.

According to Eritrea, this perspective and the false packaging only accentuate the prevailing, misguided and unjustified US policy against the East African country.

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