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Eritrea says border stalemate puts region at risk
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 22 - 11 - 2006


Eritrea said on Wednesday its
deadlock with Ethiopia over their unmarked border put the
region's security at risk and criticised the United Nations for
not doing more to break the four-year impasse, according to Reuters.
Both Horn of Africa countries rejected on Monday a proposal
put forward by an independent boundary commission designed to
end the stalemate over the 620 mile (1,000 km) frontier.
As part of a 2000 deal to end a two-year border war, both
Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed to accept as final and binding the
commission's 2002 ruling mapping the boundary.
But the process ground to a halt after Ethiopia rejected the
ruling, which awarded the flashpoint town of Badme to Eritrea,
and demanded more talks. Asmara insisted the ruling could not be
altered.
"We can only point out the dangers of not solving this
problem, not only in terms of its consequences for peace and
security in this region, but also the precedent it creates if
one country can defy an arbitration process," said Yemane
Ghebremeskel, advisor to Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki.
"We cannot accept the reality of our territory being
occupied by a foreign power indefinitely ... the situation is
not sustainable ... it cannot be accepted legally," he added in
an interview with Reuters.
Earlier this month, the boundary commission said it would
demarcate the border on maps, leaving both sides to establish
the physical boundary themselves.
The plan was rejected by both sides. Ethiopia said it would
not recognise any demarcation of the contested border, while
Eritrea said the commission should deal with Ethiopia's
"noncompliance" with the border ruling rather than searching for
"ways to skirt the issue".
Yemane said for the commission to limit its work to
indicating the coordinates of the border on a map, rather than
physically marking it, meant a "job half-done".
"The delimitation has been done. The demarcation should have
been done a long time ago. We have lost time. We have lost
opportunities ... simply because Ethiopia does not want to
recognise Eritrean sovereignty," Yemane added.
Echoing criticisms in the government press, he said the
United Nations was shirking its duty to enforce the decision.
"...the Security Council, particularly Washington, wants to
prop up Ethiopia at any cost...This is a question of major
powers trying to overlook the violation of international law
because they have other interests."
Defending national pride, Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war
between 1998-2000 over a frontier of dusty villages and scrubby
plains. Fighting killed an estimated 70,000 people.
Diplomats fear Somalia may become a proxy battleground for
the former foes, who are among countries accused by the United
Nations of breaking a 1992 arms embargo. Both deny the
allegations.


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