UN General Assembly
1982

composition and size of the United Nations troop contingent, and resolution of the question of the United. Nations impartiality raised by the Pretoria regime; thirdly, implementation, starting in April, of the United Nations plan in accordance with Security Council resolution 435 (1978), containing four fundamental aspects: a cease-fire; the gradual reduction of South African troops to 1,500 men; stationing of United Nations troops in Namibia; and free and fair elections. 196. Since the first meetings with the contact group -and quite outside its framework and mission-the United States delegation has asked for bilateral contacts with the Angolan authorities and has begun to try to link the presence of the Cuban internationalist forces in the People's Republic of Angola to the negotiating process for the independence of Namibia. This has always been firmly rejected by the Government of Angola, in view of the absurdity of such a linkage which, in fact, ill conceals the obsession or paranoia of the United States Administration about the stationing of the Cuban internationalist forces in the People's Republic of Angola.