Because Abiy brought Isaias from cold by asking the UN to remove the decade old sanction
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hands a petition on the sanctions against Eritrea to UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Addis Ababa on July 9, 2018.
Ethiopia has formally submitted a request to the United Nations to lift a decade-old sanctions imposed on Eritrea.
Returning from his Asmara historic visit on Monday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed handed a letter to visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Addis Ababa.
The UN Security Council imposed sanctions against Eritrea in 2009 for an alleged tie with the Somalia extremist groups.
Military service
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.
The sanctions were primarily economic and travel ban on targeted military service members and selected official
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