November 21, 2020
Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed
“Eritrea’s post-independence period has been dominated
by the need to thwart existential threats”
Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed in July 2019 in Münster/ Westf. Photo: Ulrich Coppel
ASMARA/ MÜNSTER. In July 2020 Ulrich Coppel sent written questions to Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh. It was intended as a „follow-up“ to an interview published in the WESTFÄLISCHE NACHRICHTEN in October 2019. For technical reasons, however, Osman Saleh was unable to answer the following questions until 16 October 2020. Important fundamental issues, such as the Eritrean National Service, the development of a constitution, but Eritrea’s post-independence period has been dominated by the need to thwart existential threats also current affairs such as the state of relations between Germany and Eritrea and COVID were discussed.On 13 November 2020, the People’s Liberation Front of Tigray (TPLF) launched a missile attack on targets in the Eritrean capital Asmara.
