The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) will hold its Military Coordination Committee (MCC) meeting on Friday in Djibouti, UNMEE spokeswoman Angela Walker told IRIN. The meeting had earlier been scheduled to take place on 28 March, but was postponed. Walker said the force commander had decided to postpone the MCC meeting until 6 April “so that talks with both parties on political and military levels could continue”. The MCC meeting is scheduled to bring together Eritrean and Ethiopian senior military officers, under the chairmanship of UNMEE Force Commander Maj-Gen Patrick Cammaert. The meeting comes after Eritrea announced it would resume the withdrawal of its forces from the proposed Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) on the border. UNMEE complained in March that Ethiopian units were back inside the TSZ.
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