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Joint ELF-RC, Party Formation
Delegation Visits Norway
By
ELF-RC Offaice for
Information and Culture
22.06.2008
A joint ELF-RC and Party
Formation Commission delegation accomplished a successful mission to
Norway between 13 and 16 June 2008. The delegation members were Messrs
Tekle Melekin, head of foreign relations; Berhane Tesfagaber, head of
financial affairs for the organizaztion, and Negassi Hamde member of the
Joint Party Formation commission in Scandinavia.
During the mission days,
the high-level joint delegation conducted a meeting for all future party
members and another meeting for the public at large. Besides, the
delegation held meetings with various Norwagian political parties such
as the Labour Party and the Socialist Party, the Oslo Center for Peace
and Human Rights, and with officials of the Norwegian foreign office.
The delegation members also held extensive talks with concerned
Eritreans who were urged to play their roles in the broad based party
under formation.
In the meetings, the
delegation explained in an exhaustive manner the current situation of
Eritrea and its people, the ongoing party formation process, the
expected role of youth in the struggle for change as well as the
activities and achievements of of the ELF-RC in various field of the
struggle.
At the public meeting, Mr.
Hamid Drar, leadership member of the Eritrean Democratic Party (EDP) who
took part in the recent meeting of the Eritrean alliance in Addis Ababa,
made an important intervention explaining issues raised at the congress
and the outstanding role played by the ELF-RC delegation in making the
alliance congress a success. Mr. Woldeab Fessehazion, chairman of the
Eritrean civil association in Norway, expressed satisfaction with the
presentations made at the meeting and commended the role being played by
the ELF-RC in the current struggle for change and democratization. He
also urged the young generation to cut its umbilical cord with the
dictatorial regime in Eritrea and take up a leading space in the ongoing
struggle to establish a better Eritrea. On their part, young Eritreans
explained that they are participating in some events organized by the
agents of the Eritrean regime abroad because the oppositon organizations
did not yet provide them with meeting places and events that they can
attend by abandoning those arranged by the embassies of the regime.
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