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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Wed Jul 21 2010 - 07:21:42 EDT
UN hails bid by Eritrea, Djibouti to settle border row
(AFP)
21 July 2010,
UNITED NATIONS — A top UN official on Tuesday hailed recent steps by Eritrea
and Djibouti to settle their border dispute through Qatari mediation.
“We commend the recent concrete steps taken by Eritrea and Djibouti on the
border issue, with the active mediation efforts of the State of Qatar,” Lynn
Pascoe, the UN under secretary general for political affairs, told the UN
Security Council.
He noted that Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr
Al-Thani, had informed UN chief Ban Ki-moon in a letter dated July 9 that
Eritrean troops had withdrawn from the disputed areas of Ras Doumiera and
Doumiera Island.
The long-running border row between the two Horn of Africa neighbors over
the disputed Ras Doumeira promontory on the shores of the Red Sea led to
clashes in 1996, 1999 and again in 2008.
Last month, the two sides signed an agreement, brokered by Qatar, in which
they vowed to resolve the conflict through negotiation.
Qatari military observers have been deployed to those areas pending a final,
binding settlement.
“The government of Qatar has confirmed to us that cooperation between both
countries and the Qatari forces is good and that the Qatari forces will
remain deployed in both countries until the dispute between them has been
settled,” Pascoe said.
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