UN team visits Ethiopia, Eritrea
Ethiopia-Eritrea, Politics, 7/5/2000

An Ethiopian official source in Addis Ababa has stressed that a UN- fact finding commission arrived on Tuesday evening to the Ethiopian capital to hold talks with the Ethiopian officials and to study material and logistic needs to start the process of redeployment of the UN peace keeping forces on the Ethiopian- Eritrean borders.

The source said that the team will meet with high ranking officials at the Organization of the African Unity and the European Union and other international organizations in order to hold similar talks concerning the redeployment of peace keeping forces along the border area under disputes between the two countries.

The team includes five persons led by Gen. Timour Four, who will head for Asmara after the end of his talks in Addis Ababa.

The source continued that the team will pay an inspection visit to the Ethiopian- Eritrea borders upon its return back from Asmara within the few coming days to evaluate and find out the necessary needs so as to control conditions in areas under disputes between the two countries.

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