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DATE=7/31/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=ETHIOPIA-ERITREA-U-N (L-O)
NUMBER=2-264987
BYLINE=LARRY FREUND
DATELINE=NEW YORK
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  The U-N Security Council agreed (Monday) to 
send up to 100 military observers to Ethiopia and 
Eritrea to prepare for a possible peacekeeping 
operation along the border between the two countries.  
Correspondent Larry Freund reports from New York.
TEXT:  The Security Council voted unanimously to 
establish the U-N Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea.  
The mandate for the mission is for six-months.  
Earlier, the Security Council heard a private briefing 
from the U-N official in charge of peacekeeping, Hedi 
Annabi, who discussed the new mission. U-N spokesman 
Manoel de Alemeida e Silva:
            /// ALMEIDA E SILVA ACT ///
      He explained the need for a U-N mission 
      consisting of up to 100-military observers and 
      necessary civilian support and described 
      proposals for deploying military observers and 
      infantry battalions in a temporary security zone 
      along the Ethiopia-Eritrea border.  The mission 
      is supposed to confirm the redeployment of 
      Ethiopian and Eritrean forces in accordance with 
      the cessation of hostilities agreement signed on 
      June 17th.
             /// END ACT ///
The Security Council resolution calls on Ethiopia and 
Eritrea to provide the new mission with the access, 
assistance, support, and protection required for the 
performance of its duties.  It also stresses what it 
calls the importance of the rapid delimitation and 
demarcation of the border between the two countries.
The cease-fire agreement signed in June by Ethiopia 
and Eritrea ended a two-year war over the border 
separating the two countries.  The agreement calls for 
a U-N peacekeeping force which would control a 25-
kilometer buffer zone inside Eritrea and then the 
withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.  
U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan has sent a 
reconnaissance mission to the two-countries to begin 
making plans for the peacekeeping force.  The 
Secretary-General's report is expected later this 
week.   (SIGNED)
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