U.N. Studies Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Issue

U.N. Studies Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Issue Staff and agencies06 November, 2005
By NICK WADHAMS, Thu Nov 3,11:19 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council U.N. Security Council sent Japan‘s U.N. ambassador to the Horn of Africa Thursday to assess troop movements along the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the danger of an escalation into war.
The council on Thursday passed a presidential statement noting "unacceptable restrictions" placed on U.N. peacekeepers in the region by Eritrea.
It also got a briefing from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan about reports Ethiopia and Eritrea were moving troops and military equipment closer to the buffer zone, which was established after a 2 1/2 year war over their disputed border.
To get a true sense of what‘s going on there, the council agreed to dispatch Japan‘s U.N. Ambassador Kenzo Oshima, whose nation holds a non-permanent seat on the body, to the region to meet with U.N. peacekeeping officials and government officials.
Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after a 30-year guerrilla war, but the border between the two was never formally demarcated. The border war erupted in 1998, killed tens of thousands of people, and cost both countries an estimated $1 million per day.
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