Your Excellency Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary General
The United Nations
New York

May I kindly request Your Excellency to ensure that this letter is put on the record of the

United Nations and circulated to all UN Security Council Member States.

I would further like to express our gratitude for Your Excellency’s instructions,

effected on 2 October this month, to circulate to all UN Security Council Members

the Report of Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, the President of the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary

Commission, of 25 Septem

ber 2008, and to file it in the official records of the United Nations. The full report is

annexed as a reminder.