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The UN envoy’s new direct channel with Ansar Allah, combined with talks in Riyadh, reflects several principles Eritrea set out weeks earlier: Yemen cannot be settled militarily, the conflict should not be absorbed into wider regional wars, and the security of the Red Sea requires serious engagement with the states and actors that actually sit along it.
Foreign Minister Osman Saleh used Eritrea’s address to challenge the annual UN ritual itself, placing economic justice, peace and a more equitable international order at the centre of the country’s message.
Council members condemned continued Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and threats to commercial navigation through the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb, stressing navigational freedoms under international law as fighting moves closer to the strait.
Foreign Minister Osman Saleh told the UNGA81 plenary on sea-level rise that existing baselines and maritime boundaries must be preserved, framing Eritrea's Red Sea waters as a question of sovereignty and climate adaptation alike.
Eritrea and Egypt have restated that the Red Sea's security and governance belong to its littoral states, in talks at the 81st UN General Assembly that also covered trade, investment, ports and maritime transport.
Eritrea's foreign minister raised what Asmara calls the provocative acts of Ethiopia's Prosperity Party towards its neighbours with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York, alongside Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb governance and support for a united, sovereign Sudan.
Eritrea's foreign minister told a UNGA81 meeting on the right to development that trade barriers, debt burdens and unilateral coercive measures keep developing countries from setting their own policies — five days after Washington lifted sanctions tied to Executive Order 14046.
At the 81st UN General Assembly, President Taye Atske Selassie blamed “reckless external actors” for instability in the Horn — two days after seven Ethiopian armed groups formed an alliance against Abiy Ahmed's government. The record at home, the dispute with Eritrea and questions over Sudan tell a more complicated story.
The African Union and the United States issued urgent statements after Tigrayan forces took the airports in Mekelle, Axum and Shire and seven Ethiopian opposition groups began coordinating against Abiy Ahmed's government.
Eritrea has welcomed Washington’s removal of Ethiopia-related sanctions on key Eritrean institutions and officials, while signaling that preliminary contacts are already laying the groundwork for broader talks with the United States on investment, trade and bilateral relations.
Egypt's president and the CIA director used talks in Cairo to put Sudan, Somalia, the Horn of Africa and Red Sea maritime security alongside Gaza, Iran and intelligence cooperation on a single regional agenda.
Eritrea has welcomed Washington's decision to end the sanctions imposed in 2021, calling the measures unjustified while signalling that the reversal could open the way to more constructive relations with the United States.