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A three-person EU-troika team led by German Foreign Minister Ludger Volmer is due to arrive in Addis Ababa tonight (Thursday night), and continue to Asmara on Saturday, well-placed diplomatic sources told IRIN. The other two members of the mission represent Austria and Finland. The EU team is to “try and get a ceasefire”, an EU diplomat told IRIN. An OAU committee of ambassadors is also being sent to both countries to convey a message of “grave concern” and a call for an “immediate end to the fighting”, PANA reported. Conclusive proof of battlefield claims and counter-claims is impossible, journalists say, but Eritrea said the three fronts were quiet today. Claims of battlefield advances and retreats represent movement of only a few kilometres on the Badme, Tsorona and Bure (Assab) fronts.
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