According to Wahde the resolution will prevent Eritrea from destabilizing the region and stated that the Ethiopian government was happy that the sanctions do not target the Eritrean people.

According to the Ethiopian foreign Minster the sanctions are not related with Ethio-Eritrea border conflict

The foreign affairs minister of Djibouti. Mr. Mohamoud Ali Yusuf mentioned in a press statement on state television that Eritrea clearly supports Somalia’s extremists by   arming them, helping them to conduct attacks on Somalia’s TFG and killing innocent people.

“I thank in the name of the Djibouti government the great successful result brought against the Eritrean government who closed all its doors to dialogue with us, I congratulate the innocent Djibouti citizens who were waiting the say of the international involved community. To day we have reached the time we were waiting for, Eritrea is sinister, dangerous to many neighboring countries not only Djibouti, and it clearly wanted to make needless blood letting in the horn”

Eritrea Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the UN Security Council's recent announcement of the sanctions responded by a statement stating that the accusations against Eritrea for involvement in Somalia have never been substantiated or verified.

“The resolution refers to the ‘decision of the 13th Assembly of the African Union in Sirte, calling on the Council to impose sanctions against Eritrea’. Again, this assertion is replete with distortions and half-truths. As underlined earlier, the resolution was co-sponsored by Uganda in its individual capacity”, reads the statement.

The Eritrean government also accused the UN security council of ignoring the Ethio- Eritrean border conflict.
“For seven long years now since the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission gave its final and binding Award on the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia in April 2002, the Security Council has refused to shoulder its”, charges the Eritrean foreign affairs ministry.

The U.N. Security Council has agreed to impose sanctions against Eritrea for supplying weapons insurgents in Somalia and refusing to resolve a border dispute with neighboring Djibouti. The resolution also imposes a travel ban on individuals including Eritrea's political and military leadership and freezing the assets. Libya  voting against sanctions imposed on Eritrea China, one of the five permanent members of the Council, abstained from voting for the resolution,

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi late yesterday for his part said: “the sanction imposed on Eritrea has two meaning’s first international community understand Eritrean government behavior and start to stop it. We believe the sanction will be practical. Second it is enough as the first step.

“I think, the Eritrean government is getting a quarter of its money from its citizen living aboard, imposing sanction on the money transfer will damage the government capacity to spoil the region”.