A million thanks for this valuable and educational contribution you made today. As always, you EMF-is Ethiopian shield defending her causes at all times. My thanks also go to Alex Birhanu for his timely inputs. The key author, Professor Tekeste Negash, an Eritrean by birth but an outspoken Ethiopian by soul, heart, mind, body and personality Make-up deserves our deep gratitude to stand for his people on either side of the isle and fighting for the truth at the cost of numerous threats on his life. May the God-of-us all bless him abundantly!

As Dr. Tekeste conclusively pointed out, integration of the Eritrean economy with that of Ethiopia is not matter of expediency but of survival. The brunt of this homework lies with Eritrean regime. The initiative of dismantling the barriers rests existing thus far must be taken up by the Eritrean government and peoples as they were the ones who obstructed the process. In fact, it is to the best interest of Eritrea that “… its leaders and intellectuals begin to revise the colonial myths- myths which gave rise to unlimited suffering. Many people have spoken and written about the inseparable destiny of Eritrea and Ethiopia, and I subscribe to that view. I also subscribe to the view that is spreading in many parts of Ethiopia that the Eritreans cannot have it both ways.”