Sudan, Ethiopia to implement border
demarcation in October
18 August 2009 | Sudan Tribune
the border between Sudan and Ethiopia in the ninth of October this year
by the joint Committee.
The minister further stressed the readiness of the joint technical
committee to complete the demarcation to the fullest.
The minister made his statements following a ministerial meeting held in
Khartoum on Wednesday to discuss the operational plan for redrawing
the border between the two countries.
The meeting was attended by Mr. Salah Abdallah Gosh, presidential
adviser, Gen. Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, defense minister, Mr.
Samani Al-Wassila, state minister at the foreign ministry and several
members of the Committee.
The meeting studied the readiness of all relevant services to complete
the border demarcation and ways to overcome all obstacles. In this
regard, an inter-ministerial commission has been formed including the
department of survey and other relevant actors.
During several years of negotiations Sudan and Ethiopia on border
demarcation, the two countries agreed to implement different
development projects in the joint border for the benefit of the population
of the two countries in the border area.
Joint committees of the border regions from the two sides meet
regularly to discuss issues of common concern and joint projects.
During the past years, Sudanese and Ethiopian farmers disputed the
landownership and some gunmen pillaged border villages. The two
countries also suspected rebel groups of having presence in these areas.
Some Ethiopian opposition groups and organizations said opposed to the
ongoing border demarcation between the two countries and accused the
government of Meles Zenawi of dislocating Ethiopian farmers from
their land to cede it to Sudan.
They further say Sudan in return committed its self to deport Ethiopian
opponents and letting the ruling "EPRDF security agents roam" freely in
the Sudan to harass and kidnap refugees.
Yesterday the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP) urged
Sudan to "withdraw immediately and without condition from the
Ethiopian territory that it is occupying in Gondar region."
The opposition group said Sudanese authorities had "chased away
Ethiopian peasants and farmers from their land, closed farms, stationed
Sudanese soldiers on Ethioppian soil, damaged farm machinery, arrested
and taken to the Sudan Ethiopian nationals and even killed several others
over the past months."
Courtesy
demarcation in October
18 August 2009 | Sudan Tribune
- September 17, 2009
(KHARTOUM) –
Ethiopia-Sudan joint
committee will begin
border demarcation
between the two
countries next month,
a Sudanese minister
said.
Engineer Ibrahim
Mahmoud Hamid,
the border between Sudan and Ethiopia in the ninth of October this year
by the joint Committee.
The minister further stressed the readiness of the joint technical
committee to complete the demarcation to the fullest.
The minister made his statements following a ministerial meeting held in
Khartoum on Wednesday to discuss the operational plan for redrawing
the border between the two countries.
The meeting was attended by Mr. Salah Abdallah Gosh, presidential
adviser, Gen. Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, defense minister, Mr.
Samani Al-Wassila, state minister at the foreign ministry and several
members of the Committee.
The meeting studied the readiness of all relevant services to complete
the border demarcation and ways to overcome all obstacles. In this
regard, an inter-ministerial commission has been formed including the
department of survey and other relevant actors.
During several years of negotiations Sudan and Ethiopia on border
demarcation, the two countries agreed to implement different
development projects in the joint border for the benefit of the population
of the two countries in the border area.
Joint committees of the border regions from the two sides meet
regularly to discuss issues of common concern and joint projects.
During the past years, Sudanese and Ethiopian farmers disputed the
landownership and some gunmen pillaged border villages. The two
countries also suspected rebel groups of having presence in these areas.
Some Ethiopian opposition groups and organizations said opposed to the
ongoing border demarcation between the two countries and accused the
government of Meles Zenawi of dislocating Ethiopian farmers from
their land to cede it to Sudan.
They further say Sudan in return committed its self to deport Ethiopian
opponents and letting the ruling "EPRDF security agents roam" freely in
the Sudan to harass and kidnap refugees.
Yesterday the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP) urged
Sudan to "withdraw immediately and without condition from the
Ethiopian territory that it is occupying in Gondar region."
The opposition group said Sudanese authorities had "chased away
Ethiopian peasants and farmers from their land, closed farms, stationed
Sudanese soldiers on Ethioppian soil, damaged farm machinery, arrested
and taken to the Sudan Ethiopian nationals and even killed several others
over the past months."
Courtesy
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