RI officers sent to Angola<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia has sent a delegation of police
\nofficers as observers to a United Nations peacekeeping mission in
\nAngola.<\/p>\n
Lt. Gen. Soeyono, the Armed Forces (ABRI) chief of general
\naffairs, said on Friday, while sending off the Indonesian
\ndelegation to the UN mission, that the nation had once again been
\nasked by the United Nations to join in a peace endeavor.<\/p>\n
The delegation, which left under the banner of the 18th Garuda
\nContingent, is led by Lt. Col. Harry Sasongko and consists of
\neight captains and three middle-ranking officers, Antara
\nreported. The delegation will join other police observers in the
\nthird United Nations Angola Verification Mission.<\/p>\n
This latest mission came in the wake of a visit to Indonesia
\nby UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who used the
\noccasion to appeal to his host to continue to take part in future
\nUN peacekeeping missions.<\/p>\n
Indonesia's Garuda Contingent has preciously served in similar
\nmissions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia and many other
\nworld trouble spots during the past 30 years.<\/p>\n
This is the first time, however, that Indonesia has sent a
\ndelegation to Angola, a former Portuguese colony which has been
\nravaged by bloody civil wars since Lisbon ceded control of the
\nterritory. (emb)<\/p>",
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