HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN Weekly Round-up 9
HORN OF AFRICA: Eritrea says "little progress" in Algiers
The Eritrean foreign ministry said on 28 October that little progress had
been made in the latest Ethiopian-Eritrean peace talks in Algeria, and
expressed doubt over Ethiopia's readiness for peace, given its continued
fortification of positions and movement of artillery towards the front
line between the two countries. Eritrean Foreign Minister Ali Sa'id
Abdella told journalists in the capital, Asmara, that the late arrival and
hurried departure of Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin meant the
Algiers meeting ended "without having reached any substantial agreements",
the Eritrean Visafric news agency reported on Sunday. The summit had also
failed to set the exact date and place for a proposed follow-up meeting,
Ali Sa'id stated. The Eritrean delegate said his country's two major
priorities in Algiers had been demarcation of the border and compensation
for Eritreans deported and displaced by Ethiopia. He also claimed that
while Eritrea had begun demining areas in accordance with the OAU peace
agreement, Ethiopia was "busy planting new mines" in complete disregard of
it, the report said.
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