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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned in a report released Wednesday that another war could break out between feuding neighbors Ethiopia and Eritrea if progress is not urgently made on a stalled peace process.
Ban urged the Security Council to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission monitoring a tense 620-mile-long buffer zone between the countries for another six months. Given the precarious security situation in neighboring Somalia, if fighting resumes it could destabilize the entire region, he said.
"The potential for this situation to deteriorate further or even to lead to renewed hostilities is real, especially if it is allowed to continue indefinitely," Ban said in the report.
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