Ethiopia reopened on Thursday its embassy in neighboring Eritrea for the first time in the nearly 20 years following the end of the armed conflict between the two nations and two months after peace was finally declared, media reported.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th September, 2018) Ethiopia reopened on Thursday its embassy in neighboring Eritrea for the first time in the nearly 20 years following the end of the armed conflict between the two nations and two months after peace was finally declared, media reported.
According to Addis Standard news magazine, the opening ceremony in the Eritrean capital of Asmara was attended by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, high-level Eritrean officials and diplomatic staff.
Eritrea reopened its embassy in Ethiopia's Addis Ababa on July 16.
Eritrea split from Ethiopia in the early 1990s, leaving the parent nation landlocked. This sparked a war between 1998 and 2000, which killed around 80,000 people.
In June 2018, Ethiopia's ruling coalition decided to fully accept and implement the Algiers Agreement on the cessation of hostilities that was concluded by the governments of the two countries in 2000. The agreement, which, in particular, recognizes some disputed areas, including the city of Badme, as Eritrean territories. The peace between the two nations was declared in July.
