U.N. Welcomes Monaco, Eritrea
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations welcomed two new members Friday--Monaco, the playground principality nestled in the French Riviera, and Eritrea, the newly independent nation perched on Africa’s northeast shoulder.
Their formal admission by General Assembly acclamation raises the membership of the United Nations to 183.
Monaco is the latest of several ministates to join the United Nations, although it has had U.N. observer status since 1955.
Eritrea, with a population of about 3.5 million, became Africa’s newest state at midnight Sunday after a 30-year war for independence from Ethiopia.
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