Examples of using Tekle in English and their translations into Arabic
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Mr. Tekle(Eritrea): I just heard a series of half-truths
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea): The Eritrean delegation takes this opportunity to thank the Secretary-General for his informative report(A/58/136) on agenda item 51,
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, cited a number of statements made by members of the Ethiopian Government and other authorities, which accused the leaders and people of Eritrea of taking an arrogant and racist attitude towards Ethiopia.
In response to the reports, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Eritrean Chargé d ' affaires in The Hague, Negasi Kassa Tekle, to provide clarifications about the diaspora tax levied by Eritrean officials in the Netherlands.
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, said that the representative of Ethiopia had made desperate but futile attempts to divert attention from the fact that, by rejecting the Algiers Agreement, her Government had become a threat to the peace and development that the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia were yearning for.
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea): The Eritrean delegation takes this opportunity to extend its gratitude and thanks to the Secretary-General for the progress reports on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa(A/58/352)
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea) said that, since land degradation was a pernicious and widespread problem facing his country, it attached great importance to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and welcomed the decision of the Council and Assembly of the Global Environment Facility(GEF)
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, said that the Ethiopian representative had raised certain issues only to create confusion. His delegation had no interest in replying to those baseless charges, which could not be corroborated by any third-party evidence.
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea) said that no absurd accusation could change reality; he challenged the Ethiopian delegation to deny that its Prime Minister had declared war and imposed a blockade against Eritrea and to produce evidence obtained from an independent third party of the bombing of schools, and a written text which included the phrase about war which he had attributed to the President of Eritrea.
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea): The Eritrea delegation takes this opportunity to thank the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea), supporting the statement made by the representative of Morocco on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, said that the multifunctional nature
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea), underscoring that human rights were universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, as it was affirmed in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, said that the Commission on Human Rights had taken steps to ensure equality and balance between, on the one hand, civil and political rights and, on the other hand, economic, social and cultural rights.
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea) said that his delegation once more had to inform the Committee of the worsening of human rights violations against Eritreans and against Ethiopians of Eritrean origin. In the past two years, innocent civilians from both countries had been obliged to flee from their homes in the face of three attacks by Ethiopia and the occupation of a part of sovereign Eritrean territory, including towns and villages.
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea) said that since Ethiopia had begun its systematic violation of the human rights of Eritreans and Ethiopians of Eritrean origin, it had deported close to 70,000 of them on ethnic grounds, confined 2,000 in harsh concentration camps, was responsible for the disappearance of 1,500 more and deprived 15,000 others of both jobs and housing without allowing them to emigrate.
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea) said that his delegation aligned itself with the statement made by Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. He recalled that in the June 2003 Practice Note on Poverty Reduction and Human Rights, UNDP had stated that poverty was" a denial of human rights" and that" the principles of equality and non-discrimination addressed one of the root causes of poverty".
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea) said that his delegation associated itself with the statement made by the representative of Morocco on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and found it encouraging to see how
While it was true that he(Mr. Tekle) had been a senior member of the Ethiopian Government, he had been jailed for his membership of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front,
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea), replying to the statement by the representative of Ethiopia, said that Mr. Dieter Oberndorfer, a professor of political science at the University of Freiburg, had remarked that Ethiopia had received more donor assistance during the 1990s than almost any other country in Africa, and that the political repression, human rights violations, lack of political pluralism and restrictions on freedom of opinion that were occurring there had scarcely been noticed by the donor community.
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, said, on the nationality issue, that the referendum proclamation alluded to by the Ethiopian delegation was based on the earlier Eritrean nationality proclamation, article 1 of which had stated that any person born to a parent of Eritrean origin, in Eritrea or abroad, was an Eritrean by birth, and that a person of Eritrean origin was any person resident in Eritrea in 1933.
Mr. Tekle(Eritrea): We are talking about aggression and the victims of aggression.