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To: Andras who wrote (85)	6/30/1998 9:32:00 AM
From: Wayne Rumball	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 413

Sunday, June 28, 1998 United Nations Calls on Angolan Governement and UNITA to Implement Peace Accords in Honour of UN Special Envoy to Angola, Alione Blondin Beye 28Jun98 UNITED NATIONS: US, PORTUGAL, RUSSIA CALL ON ANGOLANS TO HONOR BEYE. By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, June 28 (Reuters) - The United States, Portugal, Russia and the United Nations on Sunday called on the Angolan government and the opposition UNITA to honour U.N. envoy Alione Blondin Beye by carrying out the peace accords he spent the last years of his life implementing. "The best tribute the government and UNITA can pay to the immense efforts and sacrifices of Maitre Beye and his colleagues, is by rededicating themselves to lasting peace and genuine reconciliation in Angola," they said in a statement issued in Luanda and at U.N. headquarters. Beye's light plane crashed late on Friday as it approached Abidjan airport in the Ivory Coast. Five other members of the U.N. Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) flew with him on a mission to shore up support for the peace process the statement said was "currently at a crossroads." Beye, 59, the U.N. special envoy in Angola and a respected diplomat, legal scholar and politician, was known as "Maitre Beye" in honour of his title as a barrister in France and his native Mali. The United States, Portugal and Russia comprise an advisory group, known as the "Troika," to the Angolan peace process. Portugal is the former colonial power while Washington and Moscow backed opposing Angolan factions during the Cold War. "MONUA and the Troika wish to record their highest esteem for Maitre Beye and his indefatigable efforts for lasting peace in Angola," the statement said. "They seize this occasion to rededicate themselves to peace and national reconciliation in Angola." The statement said the Ivory Coast dispatched a special unit of military and police officers to the crash site and the United Nations was conducting an "urgent investigation." Beye headed the negotiations in Lusaka, Zambia, that resulted in a 1994 peace treaty that ended Angola's civil war, which began shortly after independence from Portugal in 1975. But UNITA, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, has stalled in implementing the peace accords, fearing the government would terrorise the population in areas it controls. It also has not demobilized all of its forces, although on Saturday it took steps toward incorporating security detachments of its leader, Jonas Savimbi, into the new Angola national police. The statement said UNITA had "completed the first stage" of this process. Beye, a fast-talking energetic negotiator usually clothed in flowing robes, had threatened to quit last month because of the stalled peace process. He then asked the U.N. Security Council to impose new sanctions on UNITA but delay them so he could still try to implement the accords. On Wednesday the council said the sanctions would go into force on July 1. They include freezing the bank accounts of UNITA leaders and banning lucrative diamond exports UNITA uses to finance itself unless Savimbi complied with the accords. Savimbi has been most eager to retain the United Nations peacekeepers in Angola as a bulwark against the government's soldiers, who may seek to capture his strongholds by force. Beye's mission this weekend was to persuade leaders of Togo and the Ivory Coast, close to Savimbi, to pressure him to comply with the accords that allow UNITA to share power in the government. (C) Reuters Limited 1998. REUTERS NEWS SERVICE