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6th October 2005 - Programme Number 68

BREAKTHROUGH FOR LIBERIA'S ELECTIONS
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MORE DIFFICULTIES WITH THE ETHIOPIA-ERITREA DISPUTE

A major breakthrough in Liberia as presidential and legislative elections are CONFIRMED for Tuesday the Eleventh of October. Former Nigerian ruler Abdulsalami Abubakar has brokered an agreement with the disaffected candidates to pave the way for the polls. "I am happy despite the fact that judgment was given against NEC, ... these gentlemen, sons of Liberia, have put the interest of their country and their countrymen and women into heart. The election is on course and come 11th October, God willing, the scheduled elections in Liberia will take place," he said.

And problems mount for the UN peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, with Eritrea banning vital helicopter flights by UN peacekeepers. We hear what the head of the UN peacekeeping mission Legwaila Joseph Legwaila said recently about the stalemate and the lack of progress on the lingering Ethiopia-Eritrea dispute: "To be honest with you, I've been expecting the international community to put pressure on the two countries to realize that it is in their best interest to implement the decision of the boundary commission."

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