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    Canada announced it would deploy about 450 troops for six months to the United Nations Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), to monitor the disputed border. The Canadian troops would join Dutch troops and eight Canadian foreign staff members already there, the Montreal Gazette said on Wednesday.

    Meanwhile, the official Russian news agency Itar-Tass said two planes of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies left Moscow on Wednesday night heading for Ethiopia and Eritrea. The planes will deliver 25 tonnes of canned food, baby foods, 40 frame tents and 4,000 woollen blankets. Another plane will leave for Sudan on Monday to deliver canned milk and baby food for Eritrean refugees in eastern Sudan, an official statement said. The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Russia would continue to make a contribution to the Ethiopian-Eritrean peace settlement and take part in the activities of the UN mission there, Itar-Tass said.

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