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"We have agreed to resume air and sea traffic, to move people between our two countries and to reopen embbadies," said Abiy Ahmed at the end of negotiations with President Issaias Afwerki.
Eritrean official television showed pictures of the two leaders who were holding each other at the airport, an image unimaginable a few months ago. The two leaders have not met for nearly 20 years.
This Sunday 's meeting was organized following the announcement of Abiy a month ago that he expressed Ethiopia' s willingness to yield to Eritrea. a disputed border territory that it continues to occupy despite a contrary decision of an independent international commission in 2002 supported by the UN.
Ethiopia's refusal to surrender territory blocked bilateral relations despite the end of hostilities between countries after the war between 1998 and 2000, killing 80,000 people.
In April of this year, Abiy, 42, came to power in Addis Ababa, paving the way for the normalization of relations.
Abiy launched unprecedented reforms in the second most populous country in Africa. Among the changes, there is the announcement, at the beginning of June, of its intention to implement the Algiers agreement signed in 2000 with Eritrea and the conclusions of the international commission on borders.
The initiative was welcomed by the Eritrean President.
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