UN warns Eritrea and calls for immediate withdrawal to Eritrean troops from a buffer zone between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Meanwhile, Ethiopia says it is carefully monitoring Eritrean incursion into a buffer zone between the two countries.
The UN Secretary-General described the Eritrean incursion as a major violation of the ceasefire agreement, and urged Eritrea to withdraw its troops and cooperate with the UN in restoring the ceasefire arrangement. The spokesman for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said the Eritrean Defence Forces had taken over one UNMEE checkpoint in the (TSZ)
NEWS from Nairobi the capital of Kenya says Eritrea has deployed 1,500 troops and 14 tanks to a buffering zone along the Eritrean-Ethiopian borders. The buffer zone was created after the last war between the two countries over their disputed frontier.
Eritrean information minister, Ali Abdu said the Eritrean troops had moved to the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) to help harvest crops from the state-run farms there which constitute one-third of Eritrean territory.
Eritrea and Ethiopia has agreed to the ruling of the border commission reached in April 2002. However, Ethiopia stalled the physical demarcation of the border in 2003. The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi accepted finally the boundary demarcation in five-point peace proposal called for a meeting with Eritrea to work out adjustments to the border on both sides, the IRIN said.
Eritrea has rejected calls for fresh talks. Ali Abdu urged that Ethiopia to be blamed for continuous tension over the border, because it refused to abide by the decision of an international border commission.
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