STATEMENT ON ERRONEOUS MEDIA REPORTS

The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) would like to state that the delay in the announcement of the decision by the Boundary Commission was not caused by the Mission as was reported by the media on the weekend of the 16 and 17 February 2002. The Boundary Commission, which meets in The Hague in the Netherlands, is independent and not answerable to the Mission or the United Nations. The Mission would therefore like corrections to be made to these erroneous reports. Any query regarding the work of the Boundary Commission should be referred to the Commission in The Hague.

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(NOTE: Queries pertaining to the EEBC are to be referred to:
The Office of the Registrar (attention: Ms. Bette Shifman)
Eritrea/Ethiopia Boundary Commission, Permanent Court of Arbitration
Peace Palace, 2517 KJ, The Hague, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0) 70 302 4167; E-mail:shifman@pca-cpa.org; http://www.pca-cpa.org)


For additional information please contact:
Jean Victor Nkolo, Spokesman and Chief, Public Information Office
UNMEE Headquarters Addis Ababa, telephone: 251-1-443396;
or UNMEE Headquarters Asmara, telephone: 291-1-150411
or our tie-line in New York: 00-1-212-963-3779
(E-mail: unmeepublicinformation@un.org)

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