By Harvey Morris
Published: February 23 2008 02:00 Last updated: February 23 2008 02:00
The United Nations Security Council is caught in a dispute with Eritrea after issuing its second condemnation of the Asmara government in a week over its treatment of UN peacekeepers.
A statement on Thursday night condemned Eritrea's "systematic violations" of Security Council resolutions when interfering with the withdrawal of a UN force from the Ethiopian border area. Eritrea had refused to allow the 1,700-strong force to move to the Ethiopian side of the frontier.
At the root of the crisis is Eritrea's insistence that the UN enforce elements of an independent arbitration commission's ruling on its border dispute with Ethiopia that led to war from 1998 to 2000.
Harvey Morris, at the UN, New York
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