Eritrea, Ethiopia urged to settle their border dispute peacefully
AFP - November 14, 2007
The UN Security Council on Tuesday urged arch-rivals Eritrea and Ethiopia to settle their border dispute peacefully and to take "concrete steps" to demarcate their frontier.
A non-binding statement read out by Indonesia's UN envoy Marty Natalegawa, the council chair this month, pressed the two Horn of Africa neighbors "to take concrete steps to implement immediately and without preconditions the delimitation decision" made by a UN-appointed boundary panel.
It also appealed to the two sides to "refrain from using force and settle their disagreements by peaceful means, to normalize their relations, to promote stability between them and to lay the foundations for sustainable peace in the region" ...