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New York, 30 April: The Security Council this evening expressed its readiness to assist Ethiopia and Eritrea to overcome the current stalemate. In a statement read out by Council President Dumisani S. Kumalo of South Africa, the Council said a decision "on the terms of a future engagement in Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as the future of the Mission, would be taken in the light of consultations with the parties."
However, the Council stressed that the primary responsibility for achieving a comprehensive and lasting settlement of the border dispute and normalizing relations between the countries rested with the parties themselves.“The Security Council urges both sides to show maximum restraint and to refrain from any threat or use of force against each other and calls upon the parties to address forthwith the unresolved issues in accordance with the commitments made in the Algiers Agreements,” the President said.
The Council also noted that the continuation of Eritrea’s obstructions towards United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) had undermined the basis of the Mission’s mandate and compelled UNMEE to temporarily relocate. The Council recalled its previous condemnation of Eritrea’s lack of cooperation. |
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New York, 22 April – Following a closed Security Council meeting today, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, told reporters that Ethiopia and Eritrea are primarily responsible for settling their border dispute and must follow up on the commitments they made under the Algiers Agreement in 2000. Mr. Guéhenno said that peacekeeping could only make a difference when countries honored their political commitments.
Eritrea has announced that it no longer supports the presence of UNMEE in the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) that separates the two countries and Mr. Guéhenno told reporters after the Security Council met today, that the UN was "reaching the end of what peacekeeping can achieve" in the present situation.
In a special report to the Security Council earlier this month, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, presented four options for the future of the peacekeeping operation, including the possibility of closing UNMEE, because of restrictions imposed by Eritrea on its side of the disputed border. A decision was made in February to temporarily move UN peacekeepers and equipment out of Eritrea after the authorities failed to reinstate diesel fuel supplies. UNMEE's fuel supply was cut in December 2007, eventually paralysing its operations in the TSZ. |
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New York, 7 April: Four options for the future of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) were presented to the Security Council in a special report of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.
Mr. Ban warned that all of the options involved risks and would not resolve the current impasse. One of the options, to end the Mission following Eritrean fuel restrictions and the temporary relocation of peacekeepers from the Temporary Security Zone to their home countries, could result in a return to open hostilities, he warned. |
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