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ETHIOPIA ERITREA DISPUTE ATTRACTS US CONCERN January 11, 2006
Apunyu Bonny
(SomaliNet) A final attempt to end the border dispute between Ethiopia and its breakaway neighbour Eritrea has been put in by The United States.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, told the Security Council that a team of diplomats and military officers is being sent to the region with orders to spend 30 days bringing the two countries together.
After 30 years of fighting Eritrea got its independence from Ethiopia in 1991. Ethiopia and Eritrea has engaged in a bloody border war between 1997 and 2000, which ended in an agreement to accept the border drawn by an international commission.
Ethiopia has refused to withdraw from Badme, a town awarded to Eritrea. Late last year, Eritrea ordered U.N. peacekeepers to leave the buffer zone along the border.