/ 5 January 2001

ETHIOPIA WON?T WITHDRAW FROM ERITREA

ETHIOPIA says it will not withdraw its army from inside Eritrea until the Asmara government honoured its own redeployment commitments. The Defence Ministry said Ethiopia would consider withdrawing after a United Nations peacekeeping mission had deployed along the border and confirmed the geography of a temporary security zone. Ethiopia’s army holds large chunks of undisputed Eritrean territory along the border which it seized ahead of last year’s peace deal. – Reuters