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Boundary appointments “meet deadline”

    NAIROBI

    Ethiopia and Eritrea have announced their respective appointments to the neutral Boundary Commission and neutral Claims Commission according to the 12 December peace agreement signed in Algiers. The United Nations Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) said the two parties had agreed not to appoint their own nationals as commissioners, but included nationals from the Netherlands, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States.

    An official UNMEE statement said the appointments fell “within the prescribed timeframe” and that the commissioners would appoint a president in the next 30 days.

    The UN Secretary-General has appointed the Chief of the UN Cartographic Unit, Hiroshi Murakami of Japan, to be Secretary of the five-member boundary commission. The Boundary Commission is to commence its work within 15 days after it is constituted, and will aim to delimit the border within six months of its first meeting.

    Demarcation of the disputed border remains the biggest obstacle to resolving the conflict, humanitarian sources told IRIN.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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