Letter dated 30 May 2000 from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Ethiopia to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

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Transmits statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of 30 May 2000 reporting that the Ethiopian Defence Forces have evacuated western Eritrea; states that their mission had 2 objectives: to destroy enemy forces that were in retreat in the area; to facilitate the return of Ethiopian territories along other parts of the border that had been earlier invaded by Eritrea.