Annun ducks Ethiopia’s peace hoax, issues generic statement

By TED

9 December 2004 – In a press release issued on 8 Dec 2004, UNSG Kofi Annan avoided endorsing Ethiopia’s 5-point peace hoax/5-point attack on the Algiers peace Agreement [also known as Five-point peace plan, peace proposal, or peace initiative] and issued instead a generic statement that “welcomes any step, which may contribute to full implementation of the 2000 Algiers Agreement and the subsequent decision of the Boundary Commission, to the initiation of dialogue between Eritrea and Ethiopia, as well as to the restoration of normal relations between these two neighbouring countries. Following is the spin-free original press release:

Press Release
SG/SM/9641
AFR/1079

SECRETARY-GENERAL STUDIES ETHIOPIAN PROPOSAL ON BOUNDARY COMMISSION

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Further to the Secretary-General’s statement of 26 November, he has studied the five-point proposal that the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi submitted to Parliament on 25 November.

The Secretary-General welcomes any step which may contribute to full implementation of the 2000 Algiers Agreements and the subsequent decision of the Boundary Commission, to the initiation of dialogue between Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as to the restoration of normal relations between these two neighbouring countries. Such relations could contribute in a major way to economic and social development in both countries, as well as to that of the whole region.

Source: SG/SM/9641 AFR/1079