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SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MISSION IN ERITREA, ETHIOPIA UNTIL 15 SEPTEMBER UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1531 (2004) 12 Mar 20
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Eritrea/Ethiopia: Demo vs. gov’t. when all are on same page

 

02 Jan 2005, EDnews – It is weird but true again. When it comes to the Algiers peace agreement and the ruling that settled the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia accordingly, the government and opposition parties in Ethiopia are and have been all on the same page: They are all in denial of the Algiers peace accord and in defiance of the border ruling even as we speak. The two sides have, though, adopted their own way of expressing it.

 

Being an election year, stance on Eritrea is very crucial. The government of Ethiopia reiterated its denial & defiance of the Algiers peace accord by issuing what it put out on 25 Nov 2004, which was by all accounts, by Ethiopia’s own admission, and manifestly a 2-point plan to destroy Algiers peace accord in the name of peace sugar-coated with 3 items from Algiers, which are treaty obligations that Ethiopia must have long met and for which Ethiopia scored cheers from some nations and by continuing to speak of “the dispute with Eritrea” in clear defiance of the Boundary Commission’s ruling that settled the dispute conclusively and irreversibly.

 

The opposition reiterated its denial and defiance of Algiers by making sure that the cheers and applaud for the sugar-coating of the plan don’t lead to eventual implementation of Algiers peace accord and as the media today reported staged a 50-60,000-man demo attacking the plan for that thereby registering its anti-Algiers position just like the government did.

 

The demo being a protest against the Algiers peace agreement, there is no reason not to believe that it could have been orchestrated by the government in disguise not only because it is in its own interest but also to pressure Ethiopia’s international patrons not to attempt to compel Ethiopia to comply with Algiers.

 

That is all there is to the hype over “demo of Ethiopians slamming/against peace plan”: Two sides of the same coin. On 25 Nov 2004, the government expressed and reiterated its anti-Algiers stance the way it did. And today, 02 Jan 05, it was the opposition’s turn to do the same by doing what every opposition does: Bringing the folks on the streets, Demo.

 

 
  
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