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A statement made by Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin
last week that Ethiopia is pushed to consider
terminating the Algiers Agreement signed in December
2000 or suspending its implementation has put fevers
high following speculations that war between the two
countries is inevitable. Ethiopia is not the only
party whose patience is running out of steam it
seems.
Five commissioners of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary
Commission, established immediately after the
Algiers Agreement, met for two days in the first
week of September 2007 at the Hague, Netherlands,
and urged both countries to reach an agreement so
that the Commission would be allowed to place
pillars on the ground along their border. It also
warned that failure to comply up until the end of
November 2007 would lead to the boundary being
demarcated automatically “by the boundary points
listed” and “… the mandate of the Commission …
regarded as fulfilled.”
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