A guest post by Aletheia Kallos/MD: i see ban [UNSG BAN Ki-Moon] has cut out the indignation & bluster & is reduced to issuing warnings of the dangers of an improbable war & the uncertainty of the fate of unmee has been institutionalized & extended to fill out the present 6 month mandate ending in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
“A bomb attached to a bus exploded in northwestern Ethiopia yesterday, killing eight people, government officials said. Ethiopia said rival Eritrea was responsible”. This report, by the Associated Press, was published today in the NY Sun here.
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia
Alerted again by Aletheia Kallos, who said “my guess is it means an ongoing pink alert stall rather than red flag”, I’ve just checked out this Agence France Presse (AFP) article, here. This article states that “The Security Council took Eritrea to task Thursday for continuing to obstruct a planned evacuation of UN personnel caused [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
The UN announced at today’s noon briefing at UNHQ/NY that “Due to the lack of cooperation by Eritrean Authorities in the Mission’s efforts to temporarily relocate into Ethiopia, the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has been instructed to regroup in Asmara all personnel and equipment in Eritrea. This move will facilitate further relocation [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping
Aletheia Kallos has alerted me to the latest development in “Eritrea’s actually still ongoing farewell bash for UNMEE” (the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea) — Eritrea seems to be blocking the UN peacekeepers’ movement, and cutting off their food catering. The UN SG had his spokespeople issue a statement at today’s regular noon briefing [...]
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The UN announced that the main body of the UN Peacekeeping Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has begin a “temporary relocation”, due to Eritrea’s blocade of diesel fuel supplies which poses a danger to the functioning and possibly to the lives of the peacekeepers. This “temporary relocation”, the UN says, is to “designated relocation [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
… [as Aletheia Kallos put it to me in an exchange of emails overnight] will the United Nations in the form of UNMEE (UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea) which was created to monitor and guarantee the Temporary Security Zone which was itself created to insure the separation of forces pending the demarcation also to [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, International Tribunals, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Upon request, Aletheia Kallos has very kindly gone to the trouble of supplying the following detailed information on the Badme dilemma: “The Badme situation on another hand is not so easy to oversimplify. As I haven’t yet seen the recent EEBC (Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Commission) virtual demarcation maps I am still reduced to cribbing from older [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Another case in the world of diesel fuel deliberately withheld — this time, not in Gaza, but in Eritrea. And it’s the Eritreans who are withholding it from the UN Peacekeeping mission in their country. This is another good example, if more were needed (see South Lebanon-Israel now, and the Iraq-Kuwaiti boundary in the future) [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sanctions, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
A full contingent of 184 Qatari troops is now deployed with the UN Peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFIL. As the UNIFIL press release says, the Qatari forces will be “assisting the Lebanese Army in securing stability in southern Lebanon as part of Security Council resolution 1701″. With the arrival of the Qataris, UNIFIL now has [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Qatar, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council, United Nations