Eritrea said on Sunday a U.N. Security Council resolution on Ethiopia and Eritrea threatened to exacerbate regional tensions by failing to address the main cause of the problem is irrelevant. "The government of Eritrea believes vehemently that the resolution totally deflects attention away from the main and vital issue," Information Minister Ali Abdu told Reuters. "This resolution will only give birth to a perilous situation of tension and conflict, which will have very serious consequences, and the U.N. will bear full responsibility for this historical crime," he said. Adopted on Wednesday, the resolution threatens Eritrea with sanctions for its grounding of U.N. peacekeeping helicopters. Early last month, the Red Sea state banned U.N. helicopters from Eritrean airspace to focus international attention on Ethiopia's failure to demarcate their common border. In a peace deal to end their 1998-2000 border war, which killed an estimated 70,000 people, the two Horn of Africa countries agreed an independent boundary commission would make a "final and binding" ruling on where their border should be.
