The United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA, Mission d'Observation des Nations Unies à l'Angola) was established by
United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, an ...
Resolution 1118 of 30 June 1997.
Due to the collapse of the peace process in Angola, UN Secretary General recommended to the UN Security Council that MONUA's mandate not be renewed.
The mission officially terminated in on 24 February 1999, per the terms of
Resolution 1213.
MONUA was the last peacekeeping mission in Angola, and was preceded by three other peacekeeping missions:
UNAVEM I The United Nations Angola Verification Mission I (I UNAVEM) was a peacekeeping mission that existed from January 1989 to June 1991 in Angola during the civil war.Meisler, Stanley. ''United Nations: The First Fifty Years'', 1997. Page 368. It was e ...
,
II and
III.
The
Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War ( pt, Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war immediately began after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975. The war was ...
raged between 1974 and 2002 and was the longest lasting conflict in Africa.
At the beginning of the mission in 1997, the UN peacekeeping force consisted of approximately 3500 soldiers, observers and police constables, coming from 17 countries. This number was reduced to 400 in 1999, when the mission ended. Seventeen Blue Helmets died in the conflict.
See also
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Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War ( pt, Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war immediately began after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975. The war was ...
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Timeline of United Nations peacekeeping missions
The United Nations has authorized 71 peacekeeping operations as of April 2018. These do not include interventions authorized by the UN like the Korean War and the Gulf War. The 1990s saw the most UN peacekeeping operations to date. Peacekeeping op ...
External links
* Records o
the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) (1997-1999)at the United Nations Archives
O contexto das missões UNAVEM/MONUA in: A participação da Hungria nas missões de paz da ONU em Angola
References
Angolan Civil War
United Nations operations in Angola
UNITA
Organizations established by the United Nations
Organizations established in 1997
Organizations disestablished in 1999
1990s in Africa
1997 in Africa
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