Ethiopia urges UN to take action on Eritrea over border row
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia on Friday called on the UN Security Council to do more than just condemn Eritrea for continued obstructions that forced its peace monitoring mission to temporarily relocate.
"Appeasing Eritrea has never worked. Ethiopia and the peoples of our region expect more from the Security Council if it is to be taken seriously as a bulwark for international peace and security," the Ethiopian foreign ministry said in a statement.
On Thursday, the council unanimously slammed Eritrea for cutting off diesel supplies to the UN mission monitoring the Eritrea-Ethiopia border dispute (UNMEE), forcing it to pull out of the country.
The council adopted a non-binding statement that reminded both sides that they had the chief responsibility to achieve a lasting settlement of the border row.
Under a 2000 Algiers peace deal which ended their two-year border war, Eritrea and Ethiopia pledged to accept as "final and binding" a verdict by the panel on their dispute.
The commission granted the flashpoint border town of Badme to Eritrea, but Ethiopia has refused to recognize it.
