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To: VAUGHN who wrote (1650)	6/19/1998 3:06:00 PM
From: VAUGHN	Respond to of 7235

More Of Interest You may want to take note of the opening sentence of the third story: News on Angola Savimbi Promises UN's Beye Teams to Work in "Sensitive Areas" Radio Nacional de Angola on June 17, 1998 Jonas Savimbi, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola [UNITA] leader, yesterday promised UN Special Representative Alioune Blondin Beye he will allow technical state authority restoration teams to start working in sensitive areas today. Savimbi and Beye held a five-hour meeting in Andulo yesterday. The UNITA leader also sent a message to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Beye also disclosed that the UNITA leadership is unhappy with the latest UN Security Council sanctions package. [Beye - recording in French, with passage-by-passage translation into Portuguese] We held a long meeting. It lasted at least five hours, after which I was authorized to make the following statement: UNITA is rather unhappy about the UN Security Council resolution, which it perceives as excessive, unbalanced, and not contributing to the success of the peace process. ***** UNITA Detains UN Civilian Police Wire Sources on June 16, 1998 UNITA rebels detained but later released two United Nations (UN) civilian police officers in an area from which UN personnel had been evacuated due to renewed fighting, according to a UN spokesperson earlier this week. UN spokesman Juan-Carlos Brandt reported that UNITA rebels refused to permit the two police observers to leave their headquarters for several hours on Tuesday in the town of Cazombo in eastern Angola. *********** President Says End of June Will Probably be New Peace Process Deadline RDP Antena 1 Radio on June 11, 1998 The crisis in Angola is deepening. Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has said that the government's deadline for the situation to be resolved is the end of this month. [Dos Santos - recording] We are seeking a solution for all these problems, within the framework of the Lusaka protocol, as none of the sides has rescinded its agreement, for now. That is why at the moment we have a delegation in the USA working with the US government and with the UN Security Council. We think that a resolution will be approved soon. I think it would be premature to speak of its content. But I think it will be an appropriate political stance regarding the current problems of the peace process. I think that the idea is to give the benefit of the doubt until 30th of this month and the government, I think, will continue to look for solutions for Angola's problems, together with the international community, at least until that date. *********** Swedish Defense Minister Visits Bie Province On Aid Project Tour Televisao Popular de Angola on June 5 Swedish Defense Minister Bjoern von Sydow today visited the city of Kuito, accompanied by Deputy [Angolan] Defense Minister Gen Monteiro Roberto Leal. The visit of the Swedish defense minister to Bie Province is linked to aid projects for the reintegration of demobilized soldiers. Angola will receive from Sweden about 2m dollars for projects to be implemented mostly in Bie Province. [Von Sydow - recording, in English with passage-by-passage translation into Portuguese] We have seen all the desolation of the war, the suffering of the populace and the soldiers involved, but we have also heard good accounts of the programs for rehabilitation, public health and mine clearance, as well as on how your schooling system has developed. [End of recording] In the city of Kuito, the Swedish minister held talks with Bie Provincial Governor Luis Paulino dos Santos and visited Inaroee [National Institute for the Removal of Obstacles and Explosive Devices] where he learnt that more than 7,500 explosive devices had been deactivated in an area of about 34,000 sq.m. Regards

To: VAUGHN who wrote (1650)	6/20/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: Jimsy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7235

VAUGHN & all - feature article in this Saturdays Financial Post Magazine on Southernera, a must read. Without a doubt what DeBeers did by horning in on this project was to basically serve notice to the financial and resource development world to be on guard, and in the larger picture, the whole financial establishment is unlikely to regard DeBeers action in a favourable light. DeBeers has thusly sown their own seeds of self-destruction and we are likely to see a whole new marketting structure for the beautiful diamonds that will come out of the Canadian mines. Southernera will survive and prosper because of the integrity, determination, and world-wide respect for the people involved. In a world of electronic communication and developing perceptions, DeBeers will have just thrust themselves into a process of being downgraded with a much better outcome in the future of diamond marketting as DeBeers influence subsides, and others develop a new and enlightening fresh approach to bringing diamonds to the cherishment of their owners. DeBeers, you done goofed!!