ADDIS ABABA (Halbeeg)- The Ethiopian government has filled a request calling on United Nations to drop the sanctions on its neighbouring country Eritrea.
Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed held talks with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who is visiting Addis Ababa.
The two leaders discussed the warming ties between Ethiopia and its erstwhile foe, Eritrea.
Prime Minister Abiy handed a letter urging the UN to lift the sanctions on Eritrea, to Mr. Guterres.
Mr Guterres expressed his hope that the Security Council would soon lift the sanctions.
“If the reasons that led to the sanctions will no longer exist … they will naturally become obsolete,” Mr Guterres told reporters.
On Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council welcomed the new diplomatic relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
The body said that it could review sanctions on Eritrea.
The UN Security Council imposed sanctions against Eritrea in 2009 for an alleged tie with the Somalia extremist groups.
The sanctions were primarily economic and travel ban on targeted military service members and selected officials.
In 2016, a UN investigation team issued a report declaring there was no conclusive evidence to punish Eritrea for alleged ties with Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militants.
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