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courage a role for the United States private sector in An-
gola’s reconstruction and economic development;
Whereas the United States has provided more than $281 mil-
lion in humanitarian assistance to Angola since 1992 and
has been a key facilitator in negotiations between the
parties;
Whereas political and civil stabilization is a precondition for
growth and development of the sub-Saharan African re-
gion;
Whereas an enduring peace in Angola is central to regional
stability and economic development and consequently is
in the national interest of the United States;
Whereas the regional leaders of all Southern African govern-
ments consider the resolution of the war to be a top pri-
ority;
Whereas achieving a lasting peace will require that all Ango-
lans work together to overcome bitter legacies of war,
which include a devastated infrastructure, millions of
unexploded land mines, a profound distrust between the
parties, weakened civil institutions, a crippled economy,
and a generation of young Angolans who have never
known a peaceful, civil society;
Whereas Angola provides over seven percent of United States
daily oil imports; and
Whereas determined leadership is essential to ensure that the
wealth of Angola, long wasted in waging war, now be
used to consolidate peace and invest in national recon-
struction and human development: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
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(1) supports the people of Angola in their re-
commitment to national dialog in pursuit of peace;
(2) urges UNITA to suspend hostilities and to
pledge to fulfill its commitments under the Lusaka
Protocol and also urges the Angolan Government to
suspend hostilities;
(3) urges the United Nations to swiftly reestab-
lish its presence in Angola under its new mandate
to promote human rights protection and humani-
tarian action;
(4) urges the warring parties immediately to es-
tablish peace corridors to facilitate the movement of
humanitarian assistance to feed the more than one
million internally displaced Angolan people;
(5) calls upon the international community to
remain actively engaged in support of national rec-
onciliation, removal of land mines, economic develop-
ment, and democratization in Angola;
(6) calls upon the Angolan Government to con-
tinue to implement elements of the Lusaka Protocol
aimed at accelerating the democratic transition;
(7) calls upon all parties to recognize and sup-
port the broadening and the implementation of the
movement for peace which is emerging from reli-
gious and civil society organizations in Angola;
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(8) supports efforts to establish a nonpartisan
Angolan Institute for Peace and Development;
(9) affirms United States support for Angolan
peace through continued direct engagement in the
United States-Angola Bilateral Consultative Com-
mission;
(10) urges the United States to support finan-
cially and diplomatically the efforts of the United
Nations Committee on Sanctions to identify and rein
in all violators of sanctions against diamond and
arms sales; and
(11) calls on the United Nations to work with
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)
to develop a monitoring regime to interdict all sup-
plies to UNITA and restrict illegal arms and dia-
mond trafficking.
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