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Isaias Outlines Background to Border Dispute
Eritrea Profile–
Asmara, Eritrea May, 1998 – Due
to the sudden eruption of the issue, it would be difficult to
pinpoint the various factors that led to the present situation.
After struggling side by side for a long period we never thought
that border problems would arise in the end, for after 1991 our
thoughts for both of us was focused only on our future years.
Our mutual relations have always been positive on many...
Eritrean President's Address to the Partners Conference
Ministry of Foreign Affair–Asmara,
Eritrea, 02 Nov 1998 - Excellencies and Distinguished
Guests, Welcome to our development partners' meeting, which is
being held for the first time in Asmara. Let me begin by expressing
my gratitude to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund,
the International Finance Corporation, the European Union, the
UN family, and all our bilateral partners for attending;
The Ethiopian-Eritrean
crisis: The Eritrean perspective
Foreign Minister Haile Woldensae
(Initially published in "American Foreign Policy Interests". Vol.
20, Number 6, December 1998)- Eritrea's geographical
position as a littoral state of the Red Sea and as a member of
the historically troubled Horn of Africa has hitherto made it
the victim of an inordinate number of colonial wars and wars of
aggression in the declaration and conduct of which its people
had no say at all. The thirty years war of liberation, caused
to a large extent by the UN's unwillingness to live up to its
responsibilities of ensuring respect for its resolutions and decisions,
has taken an excessive toll inhuman lives, the loss of property,
and the destruction of the ecology. Eritreans are thus determined
that their country will not again be scarred by the ravages of
war and that their foreign and domestic policies will not be counseled
by the logic of the use of force. They affirm and strictly adhere
to the principles of peace, non aggression, good neighborliness,
non interference in the internal affairs of states, nonintervention,
respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. These principles
are applied uniformly, with neighbors and others alike.
Prime Minster Meles
Zenawi On Record About Ethiopians Deported From Eritrea In 1991
An interview Meles gave to
the Ethiopian TV. The text version of this article had appeared
on Nehase 17, 1983 (Ethiopian calendar) or August 22, 1991, in
Addis Zemen Newspaper.- In 1991, soon after Eritrea
won militarily the thirty-year war of struggle, about 100,000
Ethiopians are believed to have left Eritrea. Ethiopia, in retrospect,
is accusing Eritrea for deporting that many Ethiopians in 1991.
The issue was raised at the time. But, as you can read from the
interview given below, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia
is defending Eritrea for the action it took at the time.