Ethiopia`s new Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, 41, was elected to power primarily as a direct result of the endless protest against the repressive nature of the Ethiopian government, which came to power in 1991. Sixteen years after the ruling of the Egyptian Border Commission (EEBC), Dr Abiy said that Ethiopia had fully accepted the Algiers agreement without preconditions. As a result, Eritrea also sent a high-level delegation to Addis Ababa, the first diplomatic visit between the two countries since the war began in 1998. Ministers were greeted with much applause. The same goes for Dr Abiy, who was welcomed with the entire population of Asmara when he arrived a few days later in the Eritrean capital. This was followed by the visit to Ethiopia of the only Eritrean president since independence. Like Dr. Abiy, on 14 July, President Isaias was greeted by millions of people in the capital, Addis Ababa. What seemed unthinkable four months ago brought so much joy and tears among the two peoples. Each party made available to the Secretary who, on the basis of this evidence, forwarded his findings to eEBC, his claims and his evidence, identifying the parts of the border in which there did not appear to be a dispute between the parties.
In the event of disagreement, the parties submitted written and oral submissions directly to the EEBC, as well as any additional evidence. However, in September 2007, Ethiopia considered Eritrea a violation of the agreement and warned that it could use it to terminate or suspend the agreement. [4] In December 2007, an estimated 4,000 Eritrean soldiers remained in the “demilitarized zone” and another 120,000 along the border. Ethiopia had 100,000 soldiers at its side. [5] Each of the parties submitted applications to the Commission on its own behalf and on behalf of its nationals within one year of the agreement`s entry into force, and, with some exceptions, the Commission should be the only forum for such applications. In appropriate cases, the parties could file claims on behalf of persons of Eritrean or Ethiopian origin who were not nationals. In 2000, the two countries finally signed to settle their dispute with the Algiers agreement by an international tribunal. The ruling was rendered in 2003 as final and binding, in which Eritrea was designated as the main border town of Badme. The ruling gave a clear and binding limit on the entire border between the two countries. The delimitation could not take place, however, as Ethiopia provided a precondition for the border government and continued to occupy the territory of Eritrea.
As a result, there was an “absence of war, no peace” for the next 16 years. The Algiers agreement provided that the two states, fresh out of a costly two-year war, would accept a decision of the Eritrean and Ethiopian Border Commission (EEBC) as “final and binding”. However, when the EEBC withdrew its decision to award the city of Badme, the epicentre of the war that killed tens of thousands of two sides in Eritrea, Ethiopia, it withdrew from its engagement with the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who finally declared that Ethiopia would only accept the EEBC decision in “principle”, leading to a 16-year state of war without peace between the two countries and frustrated the international community. The agreement established two neutral commissions: the Borders Commission and the Claims Commission. Addis Ababa, 05/06/2018 – After a one-day meeting of the 36-member executive committee of the ruling EPRDF, the Political Bureau said Ethiopia would fully accept the Algiers Agreement of 12 December 2000, a peace agreement between the Eritrean and Ethiopian governments that established a special border commission.