[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 390 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 390

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the 
                        peace process in Angola.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 1999

Ms. Waters (for herself, Mr. Towns, Ms. Lee, Mr. Sanders, and Mr. Wynn) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                       on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the 
                        peace process in Angola.

Whereas the Angolan people continue to suffer the effects of protracted civil 
        war since 1975;
Whereas National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) rebels did 
        not comply with the terms of the Lusaka Protocol peace agreement and 
        plunged Angola back into civil war at the end of 1998;
Whereas the United States is actively engaged in the United States-Angola 
        Bilateral Consultative Commission with the Angolan Government to seek to 
        deepen bilateral relations, to encourage the government to undertake 
        reforms to lay a firm foundation for a lasting peace, and to encourage a 
        role for the United States private sector in Angola's reconstruction and 
        economic development;
Whereas the United States has provided more than $281 million 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 region;
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 governments consider the 
        resolution of the war to be a top priority;
Whereas achieving a lasting peace will require that all Angolans 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 reconstruction and human development: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) supports the people of Angola in their recommitment 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 reestablish its 
        presence in Angola under its new mandate to promote human 
        rights protection and humanitarian action;
            (4) urges the warring parties immediately to establish 
        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 reconciliation, removal 
        of land mines, economic development, and democratization in 
        Angola;
            (6) calls upon the Angolan Government to continue to 
        implement elements of the Lusaka Protocol aimed at accelerating 
        the democratic transition;
            (7) calls upon all parties to recognize and support the 
        broadening and the implementation of the movement for peace 
        which is emerging from religious and civil society 
        organizations in Angola;
            (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 Commission;
            (10) urges the United States to support financially 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 supplies to UNITA and restrict illegal 
        arms and diamond trafficking.
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