|
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States launched a diplomatic initiative Monday to try to mark the contested border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, a dispute that led to a 2 1/2-year war in an area where both countries are again massing troops.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton told the Security Council that a high-powered U.S. delegation would travel to the region "to discuss how to begin implementation of the demarcation process."
A December 2000 peace agreement that ended the border war provided for an independent commission to rule on the position of the disputed 621-mile boundary, while U.N. troops patrolled a 15-mile buffer zone between the two countries.
|