FACT IN THE FACE OF FICTION

"Ethiopia, which depends on the international community’s largess to feed millions of its own people, does not think the world will ever impose sanctions on her for its international lawlessness—for rejecting the April 13, 2002, final and binding ruling by the Eritrean-Ethiopian Boundary Commission (EEBC).

Ethiopia’s foreign minister, Seyoum Mesfin, in his address to the fifty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly last week, said “the hope of getting the Security Council to impose sanctions on Ethiopia…..is unlikely to happen.” Why is he so sure that this will not happen?" more ...

Ethiopia’s intransigence: What is the price of inaction?
By: Asgede Hagos October 11, 2004

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• Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission Delimitation Decision (April 13, 2002)

OAU Documents

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• OAU's Proposal for a Framework Agreement
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WORLD RESPONSE

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• United States [PDF]
  
  
• European Union
  
  
• United Kingdom
  
  
• Canada [PDF]
  

Letters and Statements

• Letter of President Isaias Afwerki to the Irish Foreign Minister
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• Letter dated 13 February 2004 from the Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council [PDF]
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• President Isaias's Letter to all Heads of States and Governments of the African Union (AU)
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• Secretary General Kofi A. Annan's Letter to President Isaias Afwerki
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• Letter from the President of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission to the Secretary-General
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• Letter from UN Security Council to Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi
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• Meles' Letter to the Security Council
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Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission Documents

• EEBC's Statement in response to the Ethiopian Prime Minister's letteR (October 14, 2003)
  
• EEBC - OBSERVATIONS of 21 March, 2003
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• Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission Delimitation Decision (April 13, 2002)

Reports on the work of Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission

1. Twelfth Report 2004
2. Eleventh Report 2003
3. Tenth Report, 2003
4. Ninth Report, 2003
5. Eighth Report, 2003
6. Seventh Report, 2002
7. Sixth Report, 2002
8. Fifth Report, 2002
9. Fourth Report, 2002
10. Third Report, 2001
11. Second Report, 2001
12. First Report, 2001