UNITA Welcomes UN Sanctions Lifting

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UNITA Welcomes UN Sanctions Lifting

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A senior official with National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) expressed on Tuesday in Luanda satisfaction over the lifting of sanctions against the former rebel force, adding that this move will help speed up the process of peace consolidation in Angola.

UNITA Secretary for Information Marcial Dachala was addressing local press in reaction to Tuesday's UN Security Council's decision to unanimously lift all economic and financial sanctions imposed on UNITA.

These sanctions, some of them dating back from 1993, aimed to block that party's funding and international support during the war that ended in April 2002.

With the lifting of sanctions, "UNITA will adjust all its organic structure at national and international level", said Marcial Dachala, who added that "there will have more space which we will turn to advantage for our party and for the Angolan people,in order to enhance democracy in Angola."

Marcial Dachala said the party will stubbornly, at national andinternational level, address to the world its message towards a lasting peace in Angola.

Under the sanctions, UNITA members were banned from moving to foreign countries, had their money and belongings frozen and couldnot trade diamonds or import fuel.

The lifting of sanctions against UNITA had been recommended by the dissolved Joint Commission, an organ which monitored the execution of the Lusaka peace process that led to ceasefire agreement signed between the government and UNITA last April.

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