Issued by: Dept Of Foreign Affairs
The Department on Foreign Affairs would like to draw the attention of South African citizens and the business community operating from South Africa to the additional mandatory measures imposed by the Security Council of the United Nations against UNITA and its members in Angola.
The Security Council voted unanimously in favour of Resolution 1173 (1998) of 12 June 1998, by which financial sanctions imposed upon UNITA will see the investment accounts and property belonging to UNITA or its senior officials and adult members of their families being frozen.
Member-states, including South Africa, are also expected to prevent all official contacts with UNITA leadership in areas still controlled by the latter, as well as to prohibit the direct or indirect import from Angola to their territory of all diamonds not controlled through the certificate of origin from the Angolan central diamond organisation Endiama.
Abovementioned sanctions are effective as from Wednesday, 1 July 1998, 00H01 and binding on Member-States and their citizens.
ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PRETORIA 23 JULY 1998