Ethiopia, Eritrea Sign Peace AccordEthiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and his Eritrea counterpart, Haile Woldensae, signed a peace agreement in Algiers Sunday to end their two-year-old border war.The peace deal calls for an immediate truce and the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force in a 25-kilometer buffer zone in Eritrea until the border between the two countries is demarcated. Present at the signing ceremony was Algerian President and current OAU Chairman Abdelaziz Bouteflika. |
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