Ethiopia/Eritrea
30 January 2008
The Council extended the mandate of UNMEE until 31 July and demanded that the government of Eritrea immediately remove restrictions on fuel supplies to the mission (S/RES/1798).
25 January 2008
The Secretary-General’s Acting Special Representative for UNMEE, Azouz Ennifar, in a report, recommended extending UNMEE’s mandate for only one month in view of the stoppage of fuel supplies.
21 January 2008
The Secretary-General alerted the Council in a letter, indicating that, as a last resort, he would send a letter appealing to Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki to intervene personally to ensure reinstatement of fuel supplies.
1 December 2007
Eritrean authorities froze fuel deliveries to UNMEE.
30 November 2007
The Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) dissolved itself and considered the boundary between the two countries finalised – marked by co-ordinates and not by placement of actual pillars on the ground.
1 October 2007
The foreign minister of Eritrea called on the UN to ensure implementation of the final border decision of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) and said that Eritrea had learned of a letter from Ethiopia indicating that it intended to renounce the Algiers Agreements. In response, Ethiopia’s representative dismissed the accusations as “baseless”, while counter-accusing Eritrea of being an obstacle to the full implementation of the Algiers Agreements and the EEBC decision.
