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                ERITREAN PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT 
                                                      POLITICAL BUREAU 
 
        EPLF Declaration on Unity Proposal. 
 
The EPLF, as announced in its Politbureau meeting of 12/6/82, has thoroughly assessed 
the present stage of the Eritrean struggle and the developments and endeavours in regard to 
the issue of national unity in its Politbureau meeting held from 23-25/10/1982 and presents 
the proposal it has adopted. 
 
POLITICAL 
 
The Eritrean People’s Liberation Front proposes: 
 
1. Realizing that the unity of the Eritrean people is a fundamental condition for victory, 
prosperity, peace and progress both in the on-going stage of national democratic 
revolution where the Eritrean people are conducting armed struggle as well as later; 
 
Rejecting all lines that employ unpatriotic and divisive narrow tendencies, their protagonists, 
and the machinations and pressures of external forces made in collusion to reinforce 
fragmentation; 
 
A coalition be formed of all the forces and patriotic elements that abide by the above-
stated two principles; 
 
2. The coalition shall form one Eritrean Natio nal Assembly composed of representatives 
of its constituent forces; 
 
3. The National Assembly shall formulate a political line that would oppose all attempts 
and ploys aimed at dividing the Eritrean people and mobilize them against their 
enemies; prepare the conducive platform for different political organisations to 
propagate their convictions and conduct democratic struggle in the national interest; 
and ratify the democratic order and institutional components of independent Eritrea; 
 
4. - The National Assembly shall form - a permanent or periodically elected - body that 
would represent the Eritrean people in all international fora and work to solicit, on 
behalf of the Eritrean revolution, diplomatic, political, material and humanitarian 
assistance. 
 
The EPLF expresses its readiness for bilateral meetings with the concerned forces towards the 
concretization of this proposal and for the elaboration of its details. 
 
MILITARY 
 
- Since the formation of one army and military strategy in order to defeat the colonial 
regime and achieve liberation is a central th eme of the armed struggle of the Eritrean 
people; 
 

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- As this has been demonstrated by the cons tructive efforts undertaken to reduce schisms 
and form one organisation and, through this, establish one army and formulate one 
strategy on the one hand, and the enormous losses incurred in the incessant clashes and 
bloodletting by the internal and external forces with a vested interest in further 
fragmentation on the other hand; 
 
- Moreover, in the future too, as the existence of various armies - whether big or small - 
would have no positive result other than breeding internecine strife and the consequent 
weakening of the human and material military capabilities of the Eritrean people in the 
interests of their enemies; 
 
- And permanently, since it would constitute the main obstacle to national political and 
economic security and stability; 
 
- The EPLF calls upon all those armed forces outside the EPLA who adhere to the above-
stated principles and accept their undeniable historical truth to join ranks in the trenches 
of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Army.  Their political question having been solved on 
the basis of the provisions stipulated in the political section of th is proposal, the views 
they might harbour on the military liberation strategy would be accepted subsequent to 
discussions. 
 
The EPLF invites - through this proposal - to th e platform of dialogue all the forces who, 
aware of the complex phase of the Eritrean revolution is currently undergoing, are ready 
to shed narrow and sectarian interests and pay the necessary sacrifices for the just 
national rights of the Eritrean people.  It reminds all the forces, who defying these 
objectives, divide the Eritrean people through various ploys, have opted to barter the 
Eritrean cause as a means of life and belligerently unsheath their sword against the EPLF 
to reconsider their positions. 
 
The EPLF calls upon all the forces who have given their genuine support to the just 
cause of the Eritrean people to support this pr oposal and play an active and constructive 
role in its implementation. 
 
Political Bureau 
of the EPLF, 
25/10/1982. 
 
 
 
 
 

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