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Article: Security Council to Impose Sanction on Agola's UNITA
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 29, 1997
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The Security Council of the United Nations today unanimously
voted
to impose sanctions on Angola's National Union for the Total
Independence of Angola (UNITA) as a punishment for its failure to
implement the peace accords.
The sanctions include air and travel bans on UNITA and closure of
its offices abroad, which will go into force on October 30, 1997.
The sanction measures were adopted on August 28 and they should
have been in force a month ago. But the Security Council postponed
them while UNITA made efforts to fulfill the obligations under the
1994 peace accords.
At the same time, the resolution decided to extend the mandate of
UN peacekeepers until January 30, 1998.
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