Eritrea foreign policy

The EU and Britain rightly defend sovereignty. Their statements must now confront Abiy Ahmed’s public claims over Eritrea’s coastline and the military rhetoric supporting them.

Yemane G. Meskel’s rebuttal exposes the legal leap in Ethiopia’s proximity argument: neither distance nor past annexation gives Addis Ababa sovereign entitlement to Eritrea’s coast.

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.

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.

Port imperialism has become a central claim in Eritrean arguments against foreign logistics concessions at Red Sea gateways. This analysis weighs that critique against the commercial realities facing Massawa and Assab, and asks where sovereign defence ends and self-inflicted isolation begins.

Asmara says stronger national institutions, domestic financing and respect for sovereignty should anchor reform of the African Union’s peace and security system.

Eritrea says IMO records confirm SIBU 1 falsely used its flag, while the UKMTO alert never identified the sanctioned tanker as Eritrean.

As attacks return to one of the world’s most important shipping corridors, outside powers are rediscovering a doctrine Asmara has advanced for years: the Red Sea cannot be secured sustainably without capable, sovereign littoral states. The latest diplomatic attention directed tow