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Angola Agrees to Small UN Mission

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By Jerome Hule

Panafrican News Agency
June 22, 1999

 

New York, UN - Four months after the UN had ordered a pull-out of its peacekeepers from Angola, the government of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has agreed to a small follow-on UN mission in the country, the world body has announced.

The UN secretary general's spokesman, Fred Eckhard, said Monday that the Angolan minister for external relations had agreed in principle to such a mission in weekend discussions in Luanda with the UN under-secretary general for peacekeeping, Benard Miyet. The mission being considered would include political, information and humanitarian components, the spokesman said. "There was no agreement yet on military observers or human rights monitors, but more discussions will follow,'' Eckhard added.

Currently, the UN has said that about 50 of its staff and implementing partners are pinned down by the fighting in the city of Huambo. The UN had in February terminated its observer mission in Angola following the resumption of war between government forces and rebels of UNITA. Efforts by the UN to retain its mission in Angola was thwarted by resistance from the government.

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