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ADDIS ABABA, July 16 (Xinhua) – Eritrea reopened Monday its embbady in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, after an absence of 20 years.
In a short, high-security ceremony, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed raised the flag of the Eritrean Mission to Ethiopia in the presence of senior Ethiopian and Eritrean officials.
Afwerki, who reopened the embbady before his departure for his country Monday morning, had paid three He attended Sunday at a music concert in the honor of the reconciliation of the two countries.
The concert and reopening of the embbady of Eritrea in Ethiopia have arrived at the end of rapid developments Warriors who fought a bloody border war from 1998 to 2000, which caused 70,000 deaths from two sides, have turned into potential close allies.
The war ended by a peace agreement of Algiers in December 2000 two countries in a
Ethiopian Prime Minister Ahmed visited the Eritrean capital, Asmara, last weekend, welcomed by Afwerki, while thousands of Eritreans lined the streets to greet him
. On June 5, the Executive Committee of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front decided to fully accept the Algiers peace agreement.
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