Press Release: Foreign Ministry Issues Statement

It is said that the US Administration has “given warning to Ethiopia and Eritrea on the proxy war they are carrying out in Somalia .”

The world community is well aware of the fact that the war that has been going on and still continues in Somalia is between the Somali people and the US Administration under the guise of “fighting terrorism” through its mercenary agent, the TPLF regime, and warlords.

Whereas this is the indisputable fact, the US Administration's continued resort to misleading statements, at one time in the name of the United Nations and at another through media campaign, obviously raises the question: who is the Bush administration trying to deceive?

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Asmara , 31 October 2006