UNATIED NATION (AP) - U.N peacekeepers face challenges in Cambodia that are similar
to those faced last year in Angola, but this time the outcome will be different,
a top U.N official said May 1.
In both cases, the United Nations organized elections while a major guerrilla group
was still armed, said Kofi Annan, the under-secretary general in charge of peacekeeping.
"The Angola example is always worrying. There are similarities," he told
reporters.
But Annan added that the United Nations had made mistakes in Angola that it would
not repeat in Cambodia.
U.N sponsored elections were held last September in Angola. The loser of those elections,
Jonas Savimbi and his Unita rebels, rejected the results, plunging the central African
nation into fighting that has killed tens of thousands.
Annan said the United Nations should have had a larger presence in Angola, been brought
into the peace process sooner and insisted that the rebels disarm.
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