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  1. “Only earlier this month, the Council met, separately, the Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, as part of its efforts to contribute to the resolution of this conflict. We join the Council on this occasion so that together we may not only exchange views on this matter but also agree on the next steps required to support and encourage further progress in the peace process.”

    2001-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4279 (2001) · source

  2. “Kofi Annan, for his unrelenting determination to promote the interest of peace in Africa and the world oven I have the honour, on behalf of the Political Committee on the implementation of the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and on my own behalf, to express our gratitude to the United Nations Security Council for inviting us to interact with it, once again, in this manner on the very pressing issue of restoring peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We are aware of the considerable amount of time and attention that the Council has devoted and is devoting to the resolution of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

    2001-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4279 (2001) · source

  3. “I wish at the outset to congratulate my old friend, Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani of Singapore, on the excellent manner in which he conducted the work of the Security Council in January and for the invitation he extended to us, on behalf of the Security Council, to come to New York on this occasion. I am at the same time pleased to see Ambassador Sai'd Ben Mustapha, a fellow African, presiding over the Council this month, during which the Council will deliberate on many issues of special interest to Africa. We commend the Secretary-General, Mr.”

    2001-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4279 (2001) · source

  4. “Instead, we are looking for partners to create conditions for peace, progress and prosperity for our people in southern Africa. Our mission to New York is a mission to promote peace in our region. We are therefore asking the Council to oblige UNITA to respect fully and urgently the deadlines established by the Security Council so as to bring peace and stability to Angola and southern Africa without further delay.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  5. “We should never forget that the suffering and innocent people of Angola are mere victims of the now- defunct colonial, racist and cold-war rivalries. They did not and certainly do not deserve such a cruel fate. Like their brothers and sisters in southern Africa, the people of Angola have suffered enough from the imposed designs of colonialism, racism - in particular its rabid variant known as apartheid - and cold-war rivalry. All that the people of southern Africa are asking for now is a chance to live in peace so that they can address the myriad problems and challenges left unattended for decades by previous colonial and racist regimes in their region. This is not too much to ask. We bear no ill will towards any country or individual for our present predicament.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  6. “The countries of SADC have decided to bring the Angolan peace process to the front burner in their regional and international engagements. The no-peace-no- war state in Angola is having a negative impact on regional cooperation in southern Africa. It is complicating Angola's role as a coordinator of major SADC-wide programmes. It is undermining the stability of the region as a whole. Therefore, besides the initiative being taken in this Council today, the leaders of southern Africa intend, as a matter of the highest priority, to initiate dialogue with all those countries they believe can make a contribution towards promoting the peace process in Angola. In this regard, they appealed to all those countries to refrain from any acts that may negatively affect the resolution of the Angolan conflict.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  7. “If UNITA does not comply with the commitments it has voluntarily undertaken, then the following additional measures will be taken against it: all UNITA bank accounts will be frozen; its offices will be closed and no new ones will be allowed to be opened; the non-issuance of visas to UNITA leaders and personnel will come into effect, and there will be a limitation of trips to Bailundo or Andulo to peace process-related missions. These measures should come into force within 30 days of the adoption of a resolution which, inter alia, contains the above provisions unless the Secretary-General has reported UNITA's full compliance with the provisions of the Lusaka Protocol. The Council must leave UNITA in no doubt of its willingness to take further and more drastic action, if necessary, to bring peace to Angola.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  8. “The people of Angola have waited for too long and sacrificed too much to be denied peace for the umpteenth time. Their hopes and aspirations have been raised too high to be sacrificed yet again at the lowly altar of narrow self-interest and partisanship. While calling upon UNITA to redeem itself by acting responsibly and honouring its commitments, we believe it is time the Security Council exercised its authority in a clear and decisive manner to salvage the Angolan peace process and restore the credibility of the United Nations in this whole affair. The Council must send a clear, unambiguous message to UNITA which says: time is up; the game is over.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  9. “Faced with such a dangerous state of affairs only four months before the expiry of the lifespan of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM. III) in February 1997, the international community owes it to itself and its credibility and, in particular, to the long-suffering people of Angola, to do all it takes to bring peace to Angola. The task ahead of us and the cost of prevarication have never been so painfully clear. Countless opportunities for making progress have been frittered away since the 1991 signing of the Bicesse Accords. The time has come to say enough is enough. Recalcitrance and obstinacy should not be tolerated or, worse still, rewarded. The international community has invested too much in this peace process to see its efforts go down the drain and its authority challenged ad nauseam.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  10. “Major pieces of UNITA's weaponry and arsenal remain unaccounted for, and the formation of the unified Angolan Armed Forces remains stymied owing to UNITA' s procrastination on this issue, despite the deployment of selection teams to almost all quartering areas. I need not chronicle the sad plight of the Angolan people whose fate remains uncertain as long as the no-war- no-peace situation continues in that country. Suffice it to say that the 1996-1997 agricultural season is already upon us in southern Africa, and close to 1.5 million internally displaced Angolans will, once again, depend on food aid for the next 12 months simply because there are no adequate security guarantees to allow them to resettle in their areas of origin.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  11. “However, while the Government of Angola was taking these positive steps towards meeting agreed goals within the specified time- frames, UNITA on the other hand has dismally failed to honour its commitments, which it voluntarily made in the context of the peace process. The Secretary-General's report clearly reveals that during the past three months UNITA in fact resorted to obstructing the deployment of UNAVEM. III by hindering the movement of the Mission's personnel and aircraft, and by vitiating the extension of the State administration throughout the country as provided for in the Lusaka Protocol.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  12. “The stalemate in the process, as reflected in the Secretary-General's report, has not only dimmed the peace prospects, but more ominously has plunged Angola into a crisis of no peace, no war. That situation has been brought about by UNITA's non- compliance with agreements it has already committed itself to. In his report, the Secretary-General informs us that over the past three months the Government of Angola took a number of positive steps, such as continuing the withdrawal movements of the Angolan Armed Forces from forward positions, adopting the National Programme for Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants and allocating up to $70 million of Government funds for the exercise, and launching the programme for the disarmament of the civilian population ahead of schedule.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  13. “Given a schedule of achievable goals and time- frames voluntarily agreed upon by the Government of Angola and UNITA, and encouraged by the content and substance of those agreed steps and measures on the road to peace, we in southern Africa, and I believe the international community as a whole, were looking forward, like the war-weary people of Angola, to the early formation of a Government of National Unity and Reconciliation. We were hoping to celebrate the irreversibility of the peace process in that country during the course of the UNAVEM. III mandate, which expires tomorrow. We are therefore naturally disappointed to note that the political will needed for that final push has been sadly lacking. Apparently, scheming, selfishness, greed and self-aggrandizement have stymied the peace process.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  14. “III, take into consideration progress made in the implementation of the peace process. It is therefore a matter of great disappointment to us all that, as the Council meets today, Angola is no nearer to peace than it was the last time the Council met; instead it is now hovering between war and peace, as the implementation process of the Lusaka Protocol is now stalled. Delays in meeting the targets laid out in Security Council resolution 864 (1993), as well as other political machinations, are not only undermining the fragile peace process, but even more depressing, are threatening to unravel the gains made thus far. Signs abound that narrow personal and factional interests are again in the ascendant.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  15. “When the Security Council met in July this year to review the mandate of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM. III), most of us shared the cautious optimism that prevailed then over the implementation of the Angolan peace process. Although we were all deeply conscious of the fact that the peace process continued to run behind schedule, our hopes were excited by some of the limited measures which both the Government of Angola and UNITA were taking. Keen to recognize that progress, the Security Council, in its last resolution on the situation in Angola, resolution 1064 (1996), commended both the Government of Angola and UNITA for registering real movement in the peace process. Conscious of the need to keep the momentum of the peace process going, the Council said it would, when next reviewing the mandate of UNAVEM.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  16. “They were extensively briefed by, inter alios, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Angola. Following a profound analysis of the prevailing situation in that country, the summit decided to dispatch to New York the Foreign Ministers of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe in order to convey the region's position on the Angolan situation. Furthermore, they recommitted themselves to redoubling their efforts to contribute towards the realization of peace and stability in Angola. In this connection the summit mandated its Chairman, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe of the Republic of Zimbabwe, to hold extensive consultations with all concerned with the view to facilitating an early high-level meeting between the Angolan Government and UNITA, as a way of building confidence between the two parties.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  17. “On 2 October 1996 the Heads of State or Government of the members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security, deeply concerned about the stalemate in the Angola peace process, met in Luanda with the intention of giving a fresh impetus to the process. Since it was UNITA that was failing to honour its commitments under the Lusaka Protocol, they decided to invite the UNITA leader, Mr. Jonas Savimbi, so that he could apprise them fully on why he was not honouring his commitments. Regrettably, this was not to be, as Mr. Savimbi, after first agreeing to attend the meeting, decided at the last moment not to turn up. The SADC leaders were naturally disappointed by this but decided nevertheless to proceed with their meeting.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source

  18. “I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. We are confident that the Council's business will profit from your wisdom and experience. I also wish to extend our warmest congratulations to your predecessor, Ambassador Alfredo Lopes Cabral of Guinea-Bissau, on his excellent stewardship of the work of the Council last month. Allow me also to express my gratitude to the Secretary-General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, for his most insightful report on the situation in Angola, and to his Special Representative, Maitre Alioune Blondin Beye, for his tireless efforts in the search for peace in Angola.”

    1996-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3702 (1996) · source