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The failure of China and Russia to issue a statement calling for an end to violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray region led the UN Security Council to abandon a draft resolution on the matter on Friday, after two days of negotiations. . Since the beginning of the violence in Tigray, these two countries have said that it is an internal problem of Ethiopia and not of the United Nations.
give up UN Security Council Friday, publication of a statement calling for an end to violence in the region. Tigray Due to opposition from China and Russia, diplomats confirmed Agence France-Presse.
After the council negotiated a draft for two days, a diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “There will be no” statement.
A second diplomatic source, who asked not to be named, confirmed that “there is no consensus” and said that “there are no plans to go further.”
A third diplomat made it clear that China opposed the wording of the statement, demanding that the phrase “violence in Tigray” be removed. But the diplomat said that this request was rejected by Western countries in the council, including Ireland, which drafted the document.
Russia supported China’s position in its objection to the text. Since the beginning of the violence in Tigray, these two countries have said that the issue is an internal problem of Ethiopia and not of the United Nations.
Diplomats said China and Russia wanted the draft to focus only on the dire humanitarian situation in the region.
The last session of the UN Security Council in Tigray was held on February 2 to demand that more humanitarian aid be allowed into the area. On that day, China and African council members (South Africa, Niger and Tunisia) opposed the issuance of a statement by the council.
Early Friday, Human Rights Watch said that Eritrean forces killed hundreds of children and civilians in November in the Tigray massacre.
‘Systematic killing of civilians’
This was the second major report published last week on violations by the Eritrean army in the city of Axum, which is included in the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO ).
And that was An Amnesty International investigation In the same incidents, he spoke of the “systematic killing of hundreds of civilians in cold blood” by the Eritrean army.
The reports from the two human rights organizations come at a time of growing concern over the commission of atrocities by the Eritrean army in Tigray.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abyei Ahmed announced the launch of military operations against the leaders of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the ruling party at the time in Tigray, in early November and said it was a response to attacks launched by the front in the Federal Army camps..
France 24 / AFP
