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Article: Ethiopia to open direct flights to Eritrea for UN missions
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 20, 2004
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Ethiopia to open direct flights to Eritrea for UN missions
ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian government has
decided to open direct flights at any time between Ethiopia and
Eritrea for the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (
UNMEE), the Ethiopian Information Ministry said here on Thursday.
In a letter to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday,
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said his country has agreed to
accept Annan's request to make direct flights between the two
countries for the UN mission, according to Ethiopian News Agency.
UNMEE has been unable to make direct flights between the two
countries owing to the "misguided decision" of the ...