“Whatever the logic of the positions it has taken, the international community has
been weak and ineffective in its efforts to resolve the crisis along the Ethiopian and
Eritrean border. A dangerous precedent was set when the international community
failed to force Ethiopia to accept the Boundary Commission’s decision on border
demarcation. It failed again when it allowed itself to be bullied by Eritrea and its
de facto termination of the UNMEE mission.”
