Leaders of a demonstration by Eritrean refugees in Israel have called on the international community to end relations with the country. The call comes ahead of a meeting in Brussels where EU states will discuss a proposed quota system that would apportion the number of asylum seekers each should accept. Thousands of people fleeing African states, such as Eritrea, are thought to have drowned in recent months as they attempted to reach Italy and Greece by boat. One of the organisers of the demonstration, Dawit Demoz, who reached Israel five years ago, said discussions over migrant quotas or military action against people traffickers running deadly boat operations in the Mediterranean, would be pointless unless EU states cut ties with the Eritrean government and put pressure on it to change.
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