From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Tue Aug 18 2009 - 09:14:02 EDT
Last Updated: Aug 18th, 2009 - 03:28:18
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Statement Of the Government of Eritrea On the Award of the Claims Commission
By Staff
Aug 18, 2009, 15:22
On Monday, 17, August 2009, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (“EECC”)
delivered its Final Awards regarding violations of international law during
the 1998-2000 border war. The EECC was established by Article 5 of the
Algiers Agreement, the same legal instrument that created the
Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (“EEBC”), which rendered its boundary
Award in April 2002.
Eritrea is well aware of the interference that has impaired the
administration of justice. Nonetheless, and irrespective of the plausibility
of the evidence and legal instruments invoked to arrive at the Award, the
Government of Eritrea accepts the Award of the Claims Commission without any
equivocation due to its final and binding nature under the Algiers
Agreement. This is indeed consistent with Eritrea’s track record of
respecting arbitration decisions that emanate from its treaty obligations.
The Government of Eritrea expresses its profound gratitude to its legal
counsel who toiled extremely hard to compile the necessary evidence and to
advance robust legal arguments in order to ensure justice.
The legal filings have not yet been made public due to procedural
requirements of confidentiality during the litigation process. Now that the
Award has been announced, the Government of Eritrea intends to put all these
proceedings in the public domain for their judgmental and educational
purposes to posterity.
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