UN General Assembly
1993

In most of these conflicts, the world has been faced with tremendous difficulties in containing and managing them, notwithstanding the constant efforts of the Security Council and the Secretary General. Such is the case of the conflict in Angola, a sister country whose suffering people have for more than 30 years endured the horrors of war, the anxiety of constant instability and the uncertainty of the future. Despite the enormous efforts made, especially by the United Nations, the conflict in Angola continues to cause death and the destruction of the country. The international community had placed great hopes in the elections of September last year that were supervised by this Organization. We all expected that those elections would be the last step in a peace process that would finally put an end to decades of destruction and give birth to a new and democratic Angola, thus creating the climate of political and social harmony in the country so much needed for its development. Instead, the events that followed the elections have been regrettably translated into a violent and tragic situation