Peacekeeping by attrition: the United Nations in Angola

In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 399-422

Abstract

At the end of June 1997, the mandate of the third United Nations

Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM III) was completed with
conditional success, and superseded by the more modestly manned and
resourced Observation Mission in Angola (Missão de Observação
das
Nações Unidas em Angola – MONUA). The 'draw-down'
of
UNAVEM III marked the end of one period in the UN's somewhat
chequered history of engagement in Angola. The completion of its
mandate followed the apparent commitment on the part of UNITA
(União Nacional para a Indepêndencia Total de Angola) to move

ahead to the final implementation of the Lusaka Protocol of November
1994. By the terms of this protocol, UNITA was to demobilise the
greater part of its army and integrate the remainder into the national

armed forces (the FAA – Forças Armadas Angolanas). Already
in
April, UNITA had complied with a central part of the political
requirements of the protocol by inaugurating a new coalition
government of national unity with the ruling MPLA-PT (Movimento
de Libertação de Angola – Partido Trabalhista).