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Carneiro

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1996-05-08
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1999-02-26
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  1. “Savimbi would accept a post as Vice-President, but we very much look forward to receiving an official response from him in order to send a clear and unambiguous signal of support for reconciliation. The Government of Angola has announced its full support for the initiative promoted by the United States and 30 additional Governments with a view to banning the use of land mines. Our support for this initiative was demonstrated in a practical way in a ceremony on 7 May in Huambo, when we destroyed a number of mines and other explosive devices. This was the beginning of a wider operation to destroy stockpiles of landmines. These steps demonstrate the Government of Angola's commitment to peace and national reconciliation. This commitment was restated by President dos Santos in his most recent letter to the members of the Security Council.”

    1996-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3662 (1996) · source

  2. “We continue to provide logistic and material support to the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM. III). Even though UNITA has not met the deadlines or troop-level goals for demobilization, we are ready to move forward with the immediate integration of UNITA troops into the Angolan armed forces (FAA). We have undertaken joint military missions with UNAVEM. III and with UNITA personnel to verify that FAA forces have not occupied areas vacated by UNITA. We have found solutions to the concerns expressed by UNITA related to its presence in the Lundas, the country's diamond region. We have reiterated our invitation to Dr. Jonas Savimbi to join the Government as a Vice-President. We understood from the talks in Libreville on 1 March that Dr.”

    1996-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3662 (1996) · source

  3. “We have pulled back our military personnel from the areas close to the quartering sites of UNITA forces. We are completing the quartering of the rapid reaction police. We have suspended weapons acquisitions and have made it clear that we are willing to cooperate with UNAVEM. III in the verification of this matter. We have released all prisoners of war. We have rescinded all contracts with the "Executive Outcomes", and repatriated their personnel. The Joint Commission was invited to verify this action. The Government of Angola, together with UNITA, has produced a revised text of the law of amnesty. I have the honour to announce today that the national Parliament has approved this law of general amnesty and that it has been promulgated by the President.”

    1996-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3662 (1996) · source

  4. “From this very fact we can infer that, if it is confronted by a more forceful demand by the Security Council in the coming 60 days, UN ITA will at last complete the quartering of all its forces, as prescribed in the Lusaka agreement and at the meetings in Libreville. Thus will all the basic conditions be established for pursuing all the political objectives - national reconciliation and national unity - prescribed in the Lusaka Protocol. As the Council's members are aware, the Government of Angola has fulfilled the monthly tasks established by the Joint Commission. The Government of Angola has completed many essential tasks and has also accomplished others on its own initiative with the aim of creating an environment of confidence in order to fulfil the obligations that should rightly fall to UNITA.”

    1996-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3662 (1996) · source

  5. “This would be regrettable, primarily because the endurance of the Angolan people and the patience of the international community are reaching their limits. At all costs, the Government wants to preserve the hope for a positive outcome of the peace process. That is why we now come to the United Nations, and to the Security Council in particular, to request that diplomatic measures be taken to persuade UNITA to live up to its commitments so that we may jointly move towards peace, progress, democracy and the well-being of all Angolans. We are convinced that UNITA can do much more than it has done so far. A clear demonstration of this is that, on the eve of each Security Council meeting, within just 8 or 10 days UNITA quarters about 10 times more men than it has in months before.”

    1996-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3662 (1996) · source

  6. “On this occasion, I would have liked to be able to announce that my Government is pleased with the way the peace process is being implemented. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The expectations created by the Security Council meeting of 8 February and during the meeting in Libreville on 1 March this year have not yet been translated into reality. We were convinced in February that, once three months had passed, a more positive review could be made of the implementation of the Lusaka Protocol and that we would be able to announce here the completion of the quartering and disarming of UNITA troops. At the current pace, and if no additional measures are taken to convince UNITA to accelerate the demobilization, quartering will not be completed on schedule.”

    1996-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3662 (1996) · source

  7. “When this goal is met, we are also counting on the international community's help in an even larger effort to reconstruct our country. The Government of Angola wishes to reiterate on this occasion its full and unconditional commitment to peace and reconciliation and its support for the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM. III) and the Lusaka Protocol. Although the peace process outlined in the Lusaka agreement has moved too slowly, I believe that the parameters for peace and national reconciliation have been established. What we seek now is to begin to differentiate clearly between rhetoric and concrete action. Only the latter will permit the full implementation of the Lusaka Protocol and of the understandings reached in Libreville between the President of the Republic of Angola and Mr. Jonas Savimbi, the leader of UNITA.”

    1996-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3662 (1996) · source

  8. “Mr. Carneiro (Angola) (spoke in Portuguese; English text furnished by the delegation): Allow me to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Angola and my delegation on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador Juan Somavia, for the positive work he accomplished during his tenure. For five years now, with the help of the United Nations, my Government has been trying to end a war that has devastated my country for almost 30 years. This war is now moving towards an end, but the special attention of the international community is still necessary to help our common efforts to bring lasting peace to Angola.”

    1996-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3662 (1996) · source