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Peace agreement set to be signed

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    Eritrean Presidential Adviser Yemane Gebremeskel has said an OAU-brokered peace accord to end its war with Ethiopia would be signed on Sunday in Algeria, which holds the rotating presidency of the OAU, news organisations reported on Thursday. The agreement was hammered out over 12 days of indirect talks in Algiers, during which the war continued. The peace proposal was accepted by Ethiopia on Wednesday, its Council of Ministers “realising that it complies with the principles and conditions enunciated earlier by Ethiopia”, according to a government statement.

    An advance Italian military and diplomatic team was due in Eritrea on Thursday to assess the situation on the ground, the BBC reported. Contentious issues were likely to include identification of the positions before the war broke out in May-June 1998, which would determine the point to which Ethiopia withdraws its troops, and the UN’s ability to mount a successful peacekeeping operation when it is already overstretched in operations across Africa, the ‘Financial Times’ reported on Friday.

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