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  1. “The Security Council is the guarantor of peace, and cannot renounce its responsibilities: wherever peace is threatened, the Council must act. And that is why we are asking the Council to allow UNAYEM to stay in Angola and work with the legal institations in place there with the prospect of there being progress in the talks that are taking place at this moment in Addis Ababa. My Government and, in particular, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, have highly appreciated the efforts of the Security Council in respect of its responsibility to guarantee peace and security world wide and its contribution to re-establishing peace in Angola in the context of the strict observance of the Bicesse Accords. Let us therefore ready ourselves to carry out the Peace Accords in Angola with success and for the prestige of the United Nations.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  2. “Finally, I am optimistic and hopeful that the Council's deliberations on UNAVEM II will be restricted to option A, as set out in the report of the Secretary-General (S/25140 and Add.1), because by making that choice the Council will be treating with fairness and justice a Member State that has been fully recognized by our Organization. The Angolan people and its elected Government need the support and understanding of the international community. The current Government of Angola deserves the Council's support and its justice, and cannot be treated on the same level as an armed military party. The Angolan Government is a legitimate Government, the result of democratic elections endorsed by the international community and by the United Nations.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  3. “It is our sincere desire that the war should end, to give way to democracy and reconciliation between all Angolans, to the reconstruction of a country where everyone can find happiness. I sincerely hope that the example of Angola, both in its positive and its negative aspects, may favourably serve the efforts towards democracy and peace that are being led, around the world, by the United Nations, so that tolerance, respect for democratic rule and economic and social development of peoples can finally occur without groundless controversy.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  4. “Savimbi is truly interested in putting an end to the war that he began, again, and claims, again, to command by declaring that he was returning to military uniform, he must comply scrupulously with the terms of the accords signed in Portugal; announce a date for renewing the unconditional cease-fire that he violated; agree to disarm, assemble in camps and demobilize his troops under the supervision of UNAVEM II; and, finally, present UNITA as a de jure and de facto political party and occupy the positions due him and his party in the Parliament and Government. The Angolan Government has no interest in a military solution, nor in seeing UNITA destroyed as a party. For that reason we have taken the initiative to set up the meeting that is taking place in Addis Ababa under the auspices of the United Nations.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  5. “To avoid being totally discredited, the Parliament and the Government of National Reconstruction and Unity have had to act in support of those who had installed them in office, trusted them and delegated their destinies to them. Not to assume our responsibilities as a Government would open the way to disorder and chaos. The Angolan Government forces defend, as in any other country in the world, the integrity and sovereignty of their State. These forces restore order and legality where they have been violated by Mr. Savimbi's UNITA. Despite all this, the Government of Angola has not closed the door to dialogue. Therefore, if Mr.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  6. “Two of these locations are Lukuni, 12 kilometres from Lubumbashi, and Briqueville/Kolwezi, where UNITA troops are integrated into the 14th Brigade of the Zairian Armed Forces. I shall not give all these references in order not to dwell too long on the matter; the information is available to the members of the Council should they wish to review it. On this occasion we wish, therefore, to denounce and condemn before the Council the intention to divide Angola into two or three parts as proposed by Mr. Savimbi. Mr. Savimbi's illegal troops do not even have the capability to provide a minimum administration in the areas they are occupying. In those areas they merely kill people and loot, pillage and destroy civilian targets. It is no longer possible, therefore, to tolerate this situation.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  7. “The "Swallows" network comprises 10 female members divided into three independent groups led by Fuka Mazili, Bea Pitone and Kumbe Eyenga; this network's plan is to introduce into Angola 100 billion counterfeit kwanza, the Angolan currency, in order to create financial instability in our country. On 23 January 1993, 120 Zairian and South African soldiers were dropped by Puma helicopters just outside Huambo., Three Zairians were captured and one South African was wounded. They are in Angola. On 22 January 1993, a Hercules C-130 aircraft was shot down and crashed somewhere in the Tchicala Tchiloango region, UNITA soldiers are encamped in various locations in the province of Shaba, Republic of Zaire.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  8. “Their licence plate numbers are as follows: VC-NCC; N 44DG; V5 JUL; and ZS/KIY. On 26 January the Namibian Government issued a statement on the seizure of those planes. A document, number 092.SARM/PRE of 2 May 1992, signed by a Colonel who calls himself Moliba Tewa Desana, Deputy Chief of Staff for Information of the Zairian Army, contains information about the creation of two clandestine networks under the code names of "Mulele" and "Swallows" to carry out acts of destabilization inside Angolan territory. According to a report made available to the Angolan Government, these clandestine networks started their activities inside Angola on 30 April last year. The "Mulele" network includes two autonomous terrorist groups, of 12 elements each, led by Sumahili Kazi and Shabani Musingize.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  9. “To prove the facts about foreign interference described in the letters the President of the Republic of Angola addressed to the Secretary-General and to the President of the Security Council, a document containing a list of facts that are evidence of the involvement of the Governments of Zaire and South Africa will be made available for the review of the members of the Security Council. Nevertheless, if I may, I should like to mention some of these points, On 23 January 1993, at the Runtu airstrip, on the Namibian border with Angola, Namibian authorities seized three South African Douglas DC-6 four-engine planes. These are three aircraft of a total of four of the same type that were engaged in illegal activities, namely, the transport of supplies for UNITA troops.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  10. “We all know that on 17 November 1992, in Angola, a national parliament and a Government were seated with broad political representation, the result of the popular vote at the ballot box. This new Government has been functioning since 4 December 1992. Those who still give logistical support or other facilities to Mr. Savimbi's UNITA are wittingly or unwittingly encouraging the arrogance and intransigence of the soldiers of an illegal army that has been formally non-existent since before the elections. The sole objective of this army is to impede the functioning of the nation, a nation that we should like to see united and indivisible.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  11. “In Angola there is a Government elected by universal suffrage, which is still not the case in South Africa. With what legitimacy, then, can a representative of a non-democratic Government intervene in the internal affairs of my country, and what valid experience can he share with us? We can only conclude that the real intent is masked interference or violation of the New York Accords, signed on 22 December 1988. Neither can we understand that there are still countries, even in Africa, that describe the Angolan conflict as a conflict between the MPLA and UNITA, when all of us know that we have held multi-party elections, with more than 1,000 foreign observers invited by the 18 parties participating in the elections, which were found to be free and fair.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  12. “UNITA participated in the drafting and the approval of the constitutional law which is now in effect in our country. UNITA also participated in the adoption of the electoral laws and the law of the parties which regulated the elections. We should like UNITA to be transformed into a real democratic party, a UNITA that would participate in the peace process and in the process of national reconstruction, Still on the subject of foreign interference in Angola's affairs, it is hard to undersand how representatives of countries that are facing grave internal problems and that are also the subject of international condemnation, such as the white minority Government in South Africa, can place themselves among those outside their borders who want to resolve the problems of Angola.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  13. “In all civilized democratic nations, those who break the law and who commit crimes are penalized. In the modern world there are countries or individuals who are penalized for not fulfilling their international commitments. For this reason, we should like the Security Council to adopt a resolution and to study the use of more forceful and effective measures to help the Angolan people and its elected Government defend the democratic law established in the Bicesse Accords, which were endorsed by the Security Council and which are now being jeopardized by Mr. Savimbi. We should like all those who have had or still have connections with Mr. Savimbi to persuade him to keep the promises he made, the rules of the democratic game and the agreements undertaken in the Bicesse Accords.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  14. “However, we should like these positions to be more forceful and to be backed up with a resolution from this Council condemning UNITA's aggressive military faction. The direct or indirect involvement of Zaire and South Africa in the internal affairs of Angola must also be condemned. We should like the Security Council to conduct an international investigation to look into the involvement of those countries, and we should like an international human rights commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross to send representatives to Jamba, in Angola, to bring freedom to the families of many UNITA dissidents currently being held outside of Jamba and to allow the free movement of the people who are now held captive in that part of the country.”

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  15. “What sort of liberator would fail to fulfil the promises he made before the international community? What humanist is this who burns people, kills elephants indiscriminately, steals diamonds and destroys bridges, electricity and water~supply plants, all of the infrastructure the people need to live? Although it came late, we appreciate the clear and unequivocal position taken recently by the international community in condemning the aggressive and militaristic actions of UNITA's radical leadership. Many of the Governments here represented have already taken courageous and firm positions making it quite clear who it is that is operating outside the law or the democratic order established in Angola after the elections which this Council endorsed.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  16. “If to some of us in Angola who are familiar with Mr. Savimbi that negative attitude is not surprising, much of the international community wondered whether the acts of destruction carried out by Mr. Savimbi and UNITA's radical wing, which he leads, had really taken place. We invite those reluctant to believe to visit Angola in order to see for themselves the destroyed bridges, schools and water reservoirs, and they can also listen to the statements of dissidents of Mr. Savimbi's militarist faction. For years, Mr. Savimbi has fooled everyone by trying to pass himself off as the defender of democracy and the liberator of the Angolan people. But what sort of liberator would massacre his own people and destroy their property? What sort of liberator would destroy the country he wishes to rule?”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  17. “It is criminal because it shows disrespect for the instituted laws of the country and because it denies the minimal rules of democratic interaction in a State under the rule of law. It all beqan when Mr. Savimbi refused to recognize his defeat at the polls and refused to participate in the second round of the presidential elections because it would have brought him greater humiliation. It all began when he urged his generals, already integrated into the Angolan Armed Forces, to go back into the bush, to unleash the military occupation of a number of towns and municipalities in flagrant violation of the agreements and of the military oath that they had taken. Thus, defenceless communities, representatives of the established authority and members of parties other than UNITA were soon massacred throughout the country.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  18. “Almost 5 million registered to vote out of a population estimated at approximately 10 million, which revealed the will of the Angolan people for peace and democracy. But our country continues to be in a virtual state of war caused by Mr. Savimbi, which hinders the full functioning of our elected democratic institutions. While all wars, in the final analysis, are always tragic, even when justified by their ends, the war that Mr. Savimbi is currently waging against the people of Angola and the institutions of the Angolan State, besides being tragic, is above all a criminal act because it is based on the destruction of economic targets and social infrastructure. It is criminal because it destroys human life and because it is motivated by selfishness and personal ambition for power.”

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  19. “It should be noted that the winning party, the MPLA, could have formed the Government by itself, as occurs in many other countries. So far, even as I speak, Mr. Savimbi has yet to allow any of his people to take their seats in the Parliament or the Government of National Reconciliation and Unity. With the signing of the New York Accords, but especially with the Angola Peace Accords, it became possible to establish a democratic State, a State under the rule of law with a market-based economic system. For one and a half years, we experienced a short-lived peace in that embryonic phase of our democracy. Thus, it was possible to hold the elections within the anticipated time-frame.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  20. “Savimbi, on 31 May 1991, under the hopeful eye of their host, the Prime Minister of Portugal, signed an agreement intended to silence the arms throughout the territory of Angola. Throughout the 16 years of war characterized by the indiscriminate destruction of human life and property that Mr. Savimbi's UNITA waged on his own people, there was a cry for the establishment of a multi-party democracy. That is a reality today in Angola. Of the 18 parties that ran in the September 1992 elections, 12 have seats in the Parliament, including UNITA, which has 70 seats, making it the leading opposition party. Taking into account the history and reality of Angola, a Government of National Reconciliation and Unity was inaugurated on 4 December 1992 with members from all of the parties with seats in Parliament, including UNITA.”

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  21. “None the less, the Government of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, desirous of peace for his people and of a peaceful, negotiated solution to the internal conflict, concluded the peace agreements for Angola with the mediation of the Government of Portugal and assistance from the United States of America as well as the then Soviet Union. The negotiation lasted approximately eight months. In the presence of two prestigious members of the Council ~ the United States of America and the then Soviet Union - in the presence of the Secretary-General and of the Acting Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its Secretary-General, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Mr.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source

  22. “Mr. de MOURA (Angola) (spoke in Portuguese; English text furnished by the delegation): When on 22 December 1988, in this very room before the Security Council, the New York Accords were signed, they facilitated the implementation of Security Council resolution 435 (1978) on the independence of Namibia. On that occasion, the people of Angola not only contributed significantly to the attainment of peace and stability in south-west Africa but also saw the first signs of hope for reconciliation, peace and democracy in Angola. At that time, a programme was established to settle the internal conflict, provided that all foreign interference would cease. Whether such interference in the internal affairs of Angola has indeed stopped is an issue that I will address in just a moment.”

    1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source