Response from International community

The response of the International community in the words of the then U.S secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, in 1952 to a Security Council debate:

“from the point of justice, the opinion of the Eritrean people should get consideration. Nevertheless, the strategic interest of the United States in the Red Sea basin and considerations of security and world peace maker it is necessary that the country has to be linked with our ally Ethiopia.”