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In a strongly-worded message to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, two human rights advocacy organizations charged Ms Christine Umutoni, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP-Eritrea country representative, of becoming "cheerleader" and top promoter of the repressive Eritrean regime by violating standard rules of conduct that govern international civil servants. Blamed as her collaborator in blindly working on behalf of the Eritrean regime is Mr. Mansoor A. Mirza, a UNDP policy specialist assigned to Asmara, Eritrea.

In their message dated 7 June 2017, the London-based Human Rights Concern-Eritrea and Christian Solidarity Worldwide, made an urgent request to the UN Secretary General to take appropriate measures against the errant two UNDP officials, who have literally become unrepresentative of the UN mission by devotedly speaking and acting on behalf of the dictatorship in Eritrea. It was not for nothing that Ms Umutoni was mockingly listed as one of the trio-foreign ministers of Eritrea together with presidential advisor Yemane Ghebreab and Mr. Osman Saleh.

The UNDP representative was undermining the conclusions of the UN Inquiry Commission and negating the glaring facts regularly presented by the UN Human Rights Rapporteur on Eritrea. She also reportedly took it as her priority job to meet donors in private and open forums to promote the Asmara regime and attended hearings and conferences to tell that Eritrea has a regime which is a credible partner in development efforts.

Similarly, her UNDP colleague, Mr. Mansoor Mirza, reportedly attended last year's UN Human Rights Council meetings and was spotted to be lobbying on behalf of the Eritrean regime and against the UN COI and the UN Human Rights Rapporteur.  

Signed by Dr. Khataza Gondwe  of the Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Ms Eliabeth Chyrum of the Human Rights Concern-Eritrea, the message to Mr. Antonio Guterres underlined that the actions of  the two UN officials have already created the impression that "the UN speaks with  two mutually negating voices: one which recognises that atrocity crimes are underway and seeks to address this urgently, and another which appears to overlook atrocity crimes and other grave violations, disregards the inalienability of human rights and, despite the human rights upfront initiative, accepts claims of economic advancement blindly in spite of the absence of independent verification mechanisms".