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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Eritrea dismissed Ethiopia's announcement that it has accepted a U.N. commission's ruling over a disputed town, saying Friday that Ethiopia attached conditions that undermined the spirit of the decision.
Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 following a 30-year guerrilla war. The Horn of Africa neighbors initially promised to accept the U.N. boundary commission's 2002 ruling awarding Badme to Eritrea, but Ethiopia has not handed it over.
Both countries claim Badme and fought a bloody 2 1/2-year war after Ethiopian soldiers opened fire on Eritrean soldiers in the border town in 1998. A 2000 truce agreement to cease hostilities has made the border more peaceful, but tensions have occasionally flared to the point that international observers feared a new war could break out.
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