Ethiopian Informer
ADDIS ABABA: July 26 (EI) — Ethiopia and Eritrea are preparing commercial legal documents to expedite bilateral relations, an Ethiopian official revealed on Friday.
Hirut Zemene, Deputy Ethiopia Foreign Minister, told local media outlets that the commercial legal documents will outline measures to ensure mutual benefits to the relationship between the two neighboring countries.
According to the deputy foreign minister, harmonizing trade relations between the two countries would help to further cement the existing strong economic ties among the two countries following the rapprochement of relations since June last year.
Hirut further stressed that Ethiopia had carried out activities with other neighboring countries, mainly Djibouti and Kenya, that will help maintain peace and promote regional integration in the Horn of Africa region.
The recent positive developments between Ethiopia and its northern neighbor Eritrea, which started in July 2018, ended two decades of bitter armed standoff, which followed a bloody two-year border war in 1998-2000 that killed an estimated 70,000 people from both sides.
