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Article: Angola: No Substitute for the Lusaka Peace Accords
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 5, 1996
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I read the Feb. 28 letter by UNITA representative Jardo
Muekalia {"Angola: The Mercenaries Remain"} with concern, because
some of The Post's readers may actually take his comments as facts.
Broadly, I am disappointed to read that UNITA still lives in the
past, preferring to rehash events of 1992 rather than address
current problems and take the country into the future.
Of more specific concern was a not very veiled threat by UNITA
that it will hold the Lusaka Protocols peace process hostage until
the mandate of the National Assembly expires late this year. While
UNITA has made this threat privately in Angola, I am still stunned
that it is taking it public in such a blatant manner. I ...