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Border Demarcation Good for Settling Ethio-Eritrea Dispute: Ethiopian Pundit

The Ethio-Eritrean border demarcation would help peacefully settle the dispute between the two countries and avert similar conflict once and for all, an Ethiopian pundit said Tuesday Addis Ababa.


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The Ethio-Eritrean border demarcation would help peacefully settle the dispute between the two countries and avert similar conflict once and for all, an Ethiopian pundit said Tuesday Addis Ababa.

Kinfe Abreha, director of Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development, noted that the ruling of the Boundary Commission in the Hague would be of a paramount importance for the prevalence of peace in the sub-region as a whole.

He dismissed as baseless rumors that allege Ethiopia would be the victim of the ruling, according to Ethiopian News Agency.

It would be premature to say that one party is a loser or winner without knowing the final ruling of the border delimitation, according to the director.

The commission is expected to announce the final decision of border demarcation between the two countries on April 13 in the Hague.

The move came in the wake of the Ethio-Eritrean peace agreement signed in December 2000 following a more than two-years border conflict which claimed thousands of lives from both countries.

According to the agreement, the two countries agreed to let an international neutral body, the Boundary Commission based in the Hague, settle their territorial dispute which was the main core for the war between the two sides.

Earlier some Ethiopian opposition parties argued that the border demarcation should not be based on colonial treaties signed between Ethiopia and Eritrea in the early year of 1900s.

However, Kinfe held that Ethiopia was more beneficiary from such treaties and there was no better base for the demarcation than the treaties.


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