Argaw Ashine
15 May 2008
Ethiopia says a border demarcation with neighboring Sudan is underway although an agreement has not yet been reached.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that the demarcation process was being executed with mutual respect and based on historical evidences.
This border demarcation activity is based on the agreements signed with Sudan and former colonial master Britain.
Both countries, which have shared a common border committee since 1972 have been trying to re-demarcate the border since 2001.
The African Affairs Director in the ministry, Mr Wahde Belay, said there was no disagreement between Sudan and Ethiopia to solve the issue without the intervention of third party adding that the demarcation of 1600km border might take a longer time to finalise.
Ethiopia and Sudan first signed the border agreement in 1903 and 1909 and agreed to re-demarcate the border in 1972.
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more than the news we have liked the comments. please tell us by directly interviewing the local peoples about the situation. also we wanna appreciate if some one gives factual situation from the area. we are too bored of listening what EPRDF is propagating and we are realy disturbed. what they are doing is "legitimising" their big deal with their sudanese counterparts. bye VICTORY FOR ALL ETHIOPIANS!
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RE: Africa: Ethiopia Dismisses New Border Deal With Sudan Posted to the web 14 May 2008
Dear Editor,
Unlike many other nations, Ethiopia is always privileged with a free pass to fool the world, even when invading it's neighbors in violation of international treaties or massacring and starving-it's own people. Your reporter, Argaw Ashine, must have bee working hard in trying to reassure the world that Ethiopia is NOT making another war, in another boarder, with it's another neighbor, Sudan.
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