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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday put off deciding the fate of a peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea to give the United States more time to resolve a long-standing border dispute between the two nations.
The decision means the United States will have another month to get Ethiopia and Eritrea to agree at last on a definitive border, after which the mission's mandate expires. Ethiopia has refused to accept a border ruling from 2002, and Eritrea late last year banned U.N. helicopter flights and expelled Western peacekeepers with the mission in apparent response.
The United States hopes that Eritrea will ease the restrictions on peacekeepers if the border dispute is settled. Otherwise, the Security Council will have to decide whether to scale back the peacekeeping mission.
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