Ethiopia: Security Council Extends UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea - AllAfrica.com

Expressing its deep concern over the in progress difference between Federal Democratic Republic Of Ethiopia and Eritrea, the Security Council voted today for a six-month extension of the authorization of the United Nations peacekeeping operation missionary post monitoring the 2000 ceasefire that ended the boundary line warfare between the two countries.

In a unanimously adopted resolution, the Council called on the two sides to "show upper limit restraint and chorus from any menace or usage of armed forces unit against each other, avoid provocative military activities and set an end to the exchange of hostile statements."

The 15-member organic structure also emphasized that "Eritrea and Federal Democratic Republic Of Federal Democratic Republic Of Ethiopia bear the primary duty for achieving a comprehensive and permanent colony of the bounds line difference and normalizing their relations."

Despite a concluding and binding determination being handed down inch 2002 by the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Committee (EEBC), the Horn of Africa neighbors have got been at an deadlock on the limit of their boundary with a military build-up in the boundary line countries by both sides.

Today's declaration called on State Of State Of Eritrea to retreat all military personnel and heavy military equipment from the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) immediately and urged Ethiopia to diminish its military military units in countries next to the TSZ.

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The Council also expressed its concern over the critical combustible degrees which are impeding UNMEE's work, and demanded that the Eritrean Government "resumes immediately combustible cargoes to UNMEE or lets UNMEE to import combustible without restrictions."

Last week, Azouz Ennifar, the mission's acting head, told journalists after briefing the Security Council that UNMEE have not been able to obtain fresh stores of fuel in State Of Eritrea since the start of last December.

"These limitations are paralyzing the missionary post and its motions and making the life statuses of our civilian and military staff on the land extremely difficult," he said.