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To: Jadrew who wrote (1004)	4/27/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: VAUGHN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7235

Hello Jadrew *ANGOLAN NEWS* UN Reports Fewer Illegal Arms Flights to Angola Deutsche Presse-Agentur on April 22 Flights carrying weapons to Angola in violation of the UN arms embargo have significantly decreased as a result of stepped-up UN efforts to enforce the measure, a UN Security Council member said Wednesday. Ambassador Njuguna Muhugu of Kenya, who is responsible for monitoring the arms embargo, said there were at least 186 such flights last December, most of them from South Africa, to territories under control of UNITA, a former rebel force. Muhugu said there were about 40 flights in the January-February period. "It was quite a reduction," Muhugu said. "There will be much less in the future." Mahugu, whose country is part of the 15-nation council, and the UN special representative to Angola, Alioune Blondin Beye, met with the council to discuss the situation and progress in implementing the Lusaka peace process in Angola as well as recommendations by UN chief Kofi Annan on the UN presence. Beye said the future UN mission in Angola will deal with technical and humanitarian assistance. On Tuesday, Annan informed the council that he planned to withdraw nearly half of the UN military observer force in the next two months. Annan asked the council to maintain the force in Angola from April 30 to June 30, by which time 595 military personnel will have been withdrawn and the remaining, about 700, would remain in Angola until year's end. The remaining force after June 30 will include 450 military personnel. The others are assigned to helicopter units, security duties and field hospitals. They all are to leave Angola once the council has decided to end the UN mission there. Annan told the council in a periodic report that "significant progress" has been achieved in the past months between former UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and the government in Luanda of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. The achievements include the promulgation into law of a special status for Savimbi, the return of UNITA officials to Luanda and the dismantling of Savimbi's rebel radio. Annan said the political atmosphere has improved, but not the security situation across the country amid allegations of increased attack by UNITA against the government at the local level. Regards