/ 12 May 1999

NEW PEACE MOVES FOR ETHIOPIA-ERITREA

RWANDA and Uganda are engaged in new moves to mediate in the year-old border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, it has been learned in Addis Ababa. According to diplomatic sources in Addis Ababa, president Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has sent a special message to the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi to indicate the two countries’ new attempt to end the horn of Africa conflict. Ethiopia News Agency reported that the message was delivered on Monday by the Ugandan deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Eriya Kategaya. Diplomatic sources said that Kategaya, who was accompanied by a senior Rwandan official, Dr. Thomas Rudasingwa, left Addis Ababa the same day for Asmara, where he also delivered a similar message to Eritrean president Issaias Afeworki.