October 29, 2023
Remarks by Ambassador Sophia T/Mariam
at the Interactive with the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Eritrea on 25 October 2023
Eritrea is committed to the promotion and protection of universal human rights and fundamental freedoms. Eritrea reiterates that human rights are indivisible and mutually reinforcing, and rejects cherry-picking approach and politicization of human rights, in contradiction with the principles of non-selectivity, sovereignty and constructive cooperation among States. The original Resolution against Eritrea was sponsored by African countries presumably to imbue it an African “face”. For over a decade, the politicized unjust and unfair country specific approach masked as an “African Initiative”, continued. With time, however, many Member States had come to realize the hollowness of the charges leveled against
