Ethiopia and Eritrea have agreed to resume marking out their disputed border after two days of talks in London with international mediators, the United Nations said on Monday according to Reuters. Announcement of the breakthrough came in a statement welcoming the accord by U.N. chief spokesman Stephane Dujarric. Legal experts from the two Horn of Africa neighbors had attended the London meeting, which began last Friday, at the invitation of an international boundary commission that was appointed to mark out the border under a peace agreement ending their two-year border war. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan "was pleased to hear that the parties participated in the meeting constructively, and encouraged by their agreement to arrangements for the demarcation of the boundary, which the Commission delimited in April 2002, to be resumed," Dujarric said. The 1998-2000 border war killed some 70,000 people. The peace accord ending the conflict required both sides to agree in advance to accept the border as laid out by the panel. --More 22 02 Local Time 19 02 GMT
