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Badme is a case Ethiopia
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By Team EritrreaDaily.net |
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29-Oct-03 |
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If the UNSC was stunned by the
defiant and threatening letter of PM of Ethiopia on 19 Sep 2003 and believed
that its response of merely reminding the PM of his country’s commitment to
the Algiers Agreement and solely telling him to abide by the border ruling
would bring Ethiopia back to compliance with the rule of law, then the UNSC
will realize that it erred big time and will be petrified after reading PM
of Ethiopia interview with IRIN today, 29 Oct 2003. If the UNSC didn’t hear it
right the first time, then they get to hear it right this time because the PM
has spoken loud and clear: Ethiopia remained as defiant as before and the PM
met the demands he set in his prior letter unilaterally by thrashing the
EEBC, calling its ruling null and void, calling for alternate mechanism based
on the Cameroon/Nigeria model, and new border negotiation. More importantly,
he let the Guarantor Nations know that the Ethiopian Army in Badme dares
their might to come and get Badme. That being what it is, it must be said
that both the PM and the interviewer purposefully avoided mentioning the
Guarantors of the border ruling and main players of the peace Agreement only
to insinuate wishful conflict between the two countries over Badme, which
will never happen because the border ruling is enforced and implemented by
the Guarantor Nations, and not Eritrea. And the Guarantor Nations will see to
it that Badme will remain where it has been adjudicated to be, in Eritrea,
because they have committed and obliged themselves to exercise their authority
and power to enforce and implement the border ruling by virtue of signing the
Algiers Agreement. Eritrea vs. Ethiopia over
Badme? Don’t even think, Meles Bad me! If it comes to it, then it is
inevitable that Ethiopia will face the might of the Guarantor Nations over
Badme to its destruction, not Eritrea. Who is kidding whom here? The Algiers Agreement that
ended the 2-year (1998-2000) bloody border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia
was crafted and designed with the active participation of the int’l community
to only succeed. In so doing, the int’l community was expressing its
commitment and determination to bring an end to the carnage over unnecessary border
wars and bring about sustainable peace between those two countries in
particular and the Horn of Africa in general once and for all and peacefully.
To that effect, the int’l community maintains and has maintained even post
the border verdict that “Only the full implementation of the Algiers
Agreement will lead to sustainable peace”, will do nothing that would
jeopardize it, and reiterated in resolutions after resolutions that it stands
by the EEBC and its decision. The integrity of Algiers
Agreement in general and the sanctity (inviolability) of ruling of the
Boundary commission in particular are guaranteed by the int’l community, notably USA EU UN AU,
under the threat of force, and hence cannot be unilaterally dissolved,
voided, or abrogated at all. And if the Ethiopia PM thinks that he can get
away with what he is doing, then he is certainly talking to himself, as do
people suffering from the dysfunctional state of terminal denial of reality. The PM’s interview today must
be a wake up call to the international community in general and the Guarantor
Nations in particular. He is once again and voluntarily calling for the
forceful enforcement and implementation of the EEBC ruling and is again
challenging and questioning the integrity of international commitment to do
so. Moreover, the PM’s message today is that he is neither impressed nor
persuaded by int’l resolutions that merely remind him of his commitments and
tell him to abide by this or that ruling. The PM is calling for it, and the
int’l community must give it to him. Although the PM’s action is
insanity, the int’l community must do what it has to do and stand up to its
commitment and end this insanity. The PM’s message is strong enough signal
for the int’l community to act decisively and swiftly by invoking all the
pertinent measures under chapter vii of UN charter now. |