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Article: Pressure grows to cut Savimbi lifeline.(Country File: Angola)(implementation of UN ban on UNITA's diamond exports)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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Faced with undeniable reports that UNITA continues to smuggle diamonds out of Angola and market them internationally despite a UN embargo imposed last year, (see AB May 1999) the Canadian chairman of the UN sanctions committee, Ambassador Robert Fowler set off on an African safari as part of a attempt to close down the rebel movement's financial pipeline.
Fowler met officials in Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe and discussed ways of improving the implementation of the security council resolution 1173 of June 1998 which included a ban on UNITA's diamond exports and the sale of petroleum products and ...