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 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Eritrean officials refused to meet the U.N. peacekeeping chief, who visited the country Tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border amid fears of a new war, a U.N. official said.
Both Horn of Africa nations have been massing troops near the border, while Eritrea has been restricting the work of U.N. peacekeepers.
Eritrea is angry that the United Nations has failed to force Ethiopia to withdraw its troops from a town awarded to Eritrea by an international commission set up under a 2000 peace agreement.
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