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Ethiopia prepared to keep fighting

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    Meanwhile, Ethiopia said on Wednesday that although it "accepts" the OAU proposals, it would keep on fighting because it believed Eritrea wanted to "pursue the path of war". In a statement received by IRIN, the Ethiopian Council of Ministers said that if the Eritrean regime persisted "in customary fashion to prosecute the war", then the Ethiopian government would "take whatever measures that are required to ensure that the country's sovereignty is safeguarded". In response, an Eritrean Foreign Ministry statement received by IRIN on Thursday called the Ethiopian statement "conspicuous for its inflammatory rhetoric and warmongering".

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