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Can it be any more clear?

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Lidetu's articulate and logical explaination to VOA's onslaught.


http://www.aigaforum.com/audiovideo/voa060110lidetu.smi
need realplayer to listen to audio...

Also from The Reporter:

EDUP-Medhin decides to join parliament, city council
The long-awaited general assembly of the Ethiopian Democratic Unity Party-Medhin (EDUP-Medhin) was held yesterday passing a decision to join the federal parliament and the Addis Ababa City Council.The assembly had three items in its agenda - joining or boycotting parliament and the Addis Ababa City Council, going ahead with or reversing the part's earlier agreement about implementing the complete merger with three other parties to form the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) party, and electing new leadership to replace the current provisional executive committee. Some members of the general assembly confirmed to The Reporter that the party decided to join parliament and the Addis Ababa City Council.Some 164 general assembly members, two-third of the total number, elected a new central committee consisting of 25 members, though no election of executive committee members was held.
So far no information has come forth as to what has been decided about the merger issue.
Attempts to get more information from EDUP-Medhin members, including its provisional executive committee chairman, Lidetu Ayalew, did not bear fruit. Lidetu told The Reporter that he would not divulge any information about the proceedings and outcome of the assembly until we went into press.
By Bruck Shewareged
http://www.ethiopianreporter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2233

Updates on border issue...

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Ethiopia follows border order, but not Eritrea-UN
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07623094.htm

"..."On Dec. 23, UNMEE confirmed that Ethiopia had completed the planned withdrawal of eight of its divisions from the forward positions," the report said, referring to the U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).

"Most of the Ethiopian forces presently deployed in the border area appear to have a defensive posture," the report released late on Friday said.

Eritrea had not lifted its restrictions on U.N. peacekeepers, including a ban on helicopter patrols and curtailing of ground movements, it said.

"The imposition of the restrictions on the freedom of movement of UNMEE personnel has continued," the report said.

The Security Council also threatened sanctions if they were not lifted.

But the mission said there was no evidence of tanks, artillery or large-scale troop concentrations inside the buffer zone.

Eritrean troops were stationed at 15 to 17 locations inside the zone, with 80 to 150 soldiers at each position, it said..."



Eritrea will accept "mistaken" ruling on war
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09779429.htm

"..."We feel strongly that it is a mistake," said Lea Brilmayer, a U.S. lawyer who has advised Eritrea for 10 years.

"We also feel very strongly that when you agree to settle something by going to arbitration then you run the risk that there is going to be mistakes and you have to accept that," she told Reuters in an interview..."