/ 2 March 1999

OAU WELCOMES PEACE

THE top leadership of the Organisation of African Unity has welcomed last Saturday’s acceptance by Eritrea of the continental body’s framework agreement to end the nine-month border dispute with Ethiopia. In a statement issued in Addis Ababa on Sunday, OAU chairman president Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim urged both parties to end the fighting immediately.