ERITREA-ETHIOPIA CLAIMS COMMISSION RENDERS FINAL AWARDS ON DAMAGES

The Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, established to “decide through binding arbitration all claims for loss, damage or injury by one Government against the other” related to the 1998-2000 conflict between them that “result from violations of international humanitarian law, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions, or other violations of international law,” today rendered its Final Awards on Damages in each Party’s Claims. The Final Awards award compensation in respect of claims by both Eritrea and Ethiopia for violations of international law previously found by the Commission in its fifteen Partial and Final Awards on liability, rendered between July 1, 2003 and December 19, 2005.