Ethiopia/Eritrea
25 September 2007
Reports surfaced of an Ethiopian notification to Asmara, declaring Eritrea in material breach of the 2000 Algiers agreement pursuant to which the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) was established; subsequently, Ethiopia said this allowed it to terminate or suspend the agreement.
6 September 2007
The Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) was moved to the Hague after objections by Ethiopia. It was convened to advance the demarcation process but failed to make any progress.
15-16 June 2007
The Council mission visited Addis Ababa.
April 2007
Eritrea denounced Ethiopia’s intervention in Somalia and the deployment of an AU mission (AMISOM) and suspended its membership in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional bloc also comprising Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan, Djibouti and Kenya.
28 November 2006
Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) decided to give Ethiopia and Eritrea one year to reach agreement on border demarcation.
20 November 2006
Having rejected Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission proposal, both Ethiopia and Eritrea boycotted the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission meeting, which was attended by the Witnesses to the 2000 Algiers Agreement (the UN, the EU, the US and Algeria).
