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Eritrea:
Letter To UNSC President 29 Jan 2008
30
January 2008
H.E.
Mr. Giadalla A.Ettahlhi
President
of the Security Council
United
Nations
New
York
Excellency,
The
process of the final and binding demarcation is now completed. The
EEBC has affirmed that the “boundary between Eritrea and
Ethiopia now stands automatically demarcated by boundary points
listed in the annex to the 27 November 2006 Statement, and [it]
considers that it has fulfilled the mandate given to it”. The
EEBC has officially presented the maps indicating the boundary
coordinates between Eritrea and Ethiopia to the two countries and the
United Nations. The Commission, in its 26th report has
also reaffirmed “the considerations of fact and statements of
law set out in its Statement of 27 November 2006”.
The
‘border issue’ between Eritrea and Ethiopia has come to
a conclusion in accordance with article 4.2 of the Algiers Peace
Agreement of 12 December 2000. The border as delimited by the
Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) in its Award of 13 April
2002 was finally demarcated pursuant to the Commission’s
Statement of 27 November 20061. Following the delimitation decision,
the final and binding demarcation of the boundary was expected to be
completed within a six month period. However, this process was held
hostage by Ethiopia for nearly six years at a great human and
financial cost.
The
process of the final and binding demarcation is now completed. The
EEBC has affirmed that the “boundary between Eritrea and
Ethiopia now stands automatically demarcated by boundary points
listed in the annex to the 27 November 2006 Statement, and [it]
considers that it has fulfilled the mandate given to it”. The
EEBC has officially presented the maps indicating the boundary
coordinates between Eritrea and Ethiopia to the two countries and
the United Nations. The Commission, in its 26th report
has also reaffirmed “the considerations of fact and statements
of law set out in its Statement of 27 November 2006”. Read
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