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Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission Renders Final Verdict


Eritrea Ethiopia Claims Commission Members

18 August 2009, The Hague, Netherlands-- In a press release it issued yesterday, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission announced it has rendered final awards on damages.

The Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, established to “decide through binding arbitration all claims for loss, damage or injury by one Government against the other” related to the 1998-2000 conflict between them that “result from violations of international humanitarian law, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions, or other violations of international law,” today rendered its Final Awards on Damages in each Party’s Claims. The Final Awards award compensation in respect of claims by both Eritrea and Ethiopia for violations of international law previously found by the Commission in its fifteen Partial and Final Awards on liability, rendered between July 1, 2003 and December 19, 2005.” said the statement.

The members of the Commission are:

Professor Hans van Houtte (President)
Judge George Aldrich (appointed by Ethiopia)
Mr. John Crook (appointed by Eritrea)
Dean James Paul (appointed by Ethiopia)
Ms. Lucy Reed (appointed by Eritrea)

Final Awards:

Eritrea's Damages Claims
Ethiopia's Damages Claims

Pensions - Eritrea's Claims 15, 19 & 23
 
Ports - Ethiopia's Claim 6
  


Read full text of press release at:

http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/EECC%20Final%20Awards%20Press%20Release.pdf


 

  
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