Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki on January 5, 2005 announced officially that his government has rejected the five-point peace proposal, which is put forward by the Ethiopian Government to resolve the Ethio-Eritrea border dispute.
 President Issaias said that his government rejected the proposal forwarded to prevent the two countries from going to war again and establish good neighbourliness by resolving the dispute peacefully claiming that it is an exercise of public relations work to solicit support from the international community.
 During the recent and previous cabinet’s meetings that have been held, he and his cabinet have reached consensus that the peace process has reached at cross roads,he added.
 He said his cabinet had also agreed that the Temporary Security Zone(TSZ) is scrapped and the peace-keeping force is no more of any use.
 However, it is well known that the TSZ was formed and peace-keeping mission has been deployed to monitor the practical application of the Algiers Peace Accord following the signing of accord by the governments of the two countries.
 According to the Accord, the agreement on cessation of hostilities linked to the termination of the United Nations Peace-Keeping Mission would only be realized after the completion of the process of delimitation and demarcation of the Ethiopian and Eritrean border.
 It is well known that it would be impossible to terminate neither the TSZ nor the peace-keeping mission based on the interest of one side, as doing so would violate the June 1992 E.C. Algiers Peace Accord.
 Eritrean President's refusal to accept the proposal shows his unwillingness to bring the dispute to and end and ensure lasting peace, which is eagerly awaited by the international community and peoples of the two countries, according to political analysts.