DATE=8/26/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=ANGOLA-SANCTIONS (L ONLY)
NUMBER=2-253160
BYLINE=LARRY FREUND
DATELINE=NEW YORK
CONTENT=
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INTRO: Experts began meeting at the United Nations in
New York today (Thursday) to study how Angola's Unita
opposition group is evading international sanctions
and to recommend new measures to strengthen those
sanctions. Correspondent Larry Freund reports from
New York.
TEXT: The United Nations experts are investigating
the way Unita is earning money to pay for arms and the
way dealers are shipping the arms to the Angolan
opposition group. The experts were brought together
after the United Nations Security Council blamed Unita
for the current unrest in Angola.
Canadian Ambassador Robert Fowler, head of the
Security Council's Sanctions Committee for Angola,
says he hopes to limit the ability of Unita chief
Jonas Savimbi to make war by making it less easy for
Unita to raise money by selling diamonds abroad, and
by limiting the sources of Unita's arms.
/// FIRST FOWLER ACTUALITY ///
We're realists. He's going to sell his diamonds.
There is no more concentrated form of value in
the world than diamonds. So those little sacks
of diamonds are going to get to market
somewhere. The issue is, we want to make it
less lucrative for him to do that.
/// END ACTUALITY ///
Ambassador Fowler told reporters U-N officials hope to
make it more embarrassing, more difficult, more
dangerous for people to sell arms to Unita.
/// SECOND FOWLER ACTUALITY ///
Decrease his revenues, increase the cost of his
arms and otherwise seek to physically interdict
so as to make it very difficult for him to
continue this war that has lasted by many
calculations a couple of generations.
/// END ACTUALITY ///
United Nations sanctions now in place against Unita
include restrictions in the trade of diamonds and oil,
the movement of financial resources, travel by senior
Unita representatives and the sale or supply of arms
to Unita. The experts have been given six months to
complete their work. But Ambassador Fowler says they
can bring recommendations to the Security Council
whenever they are ready. (Signed)
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26-Aug-1999 16:06 PM EDT (26-Aug-1999 2006 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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