1.    This Statement is issued by the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (“the Commission”) following its meeting in private session in The Hague on 20 November 2006 to consider the further procedures to be followed in connection with the demarcation of the boundary between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Invitations to the Parties were issued by e-mail on 8 November 2006. Both Parties declined the Commission’s invitation. Part of the meeting was attended by representatives of the following Witnesses to the Algiers Agreement of 12 December 2000: the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States of America and the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.