Patricia
Fernandes da Silva
November
6, 2000
International
Organization and their Management-The United Nation System.
Prof.
Ahmad Kamal
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United Nations Angola
verification mission II, also known as UNAVEM II started in June 1991 with a
seventeen-month mandate. The mandate was to verify the arrangements
agreed by the two Angolan parties, for monitoring the cease-fire and for
monitoring the Angolan police during the cease-fire period.
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Successes
1.
UNAVEM
II managed to maintain very low costs; as a matter of fact there was a
considerable surplus at the end of the mission.
2.
UNAVEM
II did a good job collaborating with other international organizations that
were at the time working in Angola, allowing for a more efficient operation.
3.
UNAVEM
II did a good job monitoring the living conditions of the soldiers being held
on the assembly areas. The guaranteed
that the locations were feet to receive and maintain the soldiers and when that
was not the case they provided or helped provide the necessary help to change
the status quo. For example they helped distribute food and medicine to the
soldiers in several occasions.
4.
UNAVEM
II maintained their impartiality until the end of the mission.
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Failures
1.
UNAVEM
II mandate was to merely monitoring the progress of the peace plan, rather than
having an active hand in implementing it, fact that very much contributed to
the failure of the peace process.
2.
The
United Nations took too long to approve the budget for UNAVEM II that
contributed to their inefficiency during the first half of the mission due to
lack of logistics.
3.
The
UNAVEM II mission was modeled on the election observation missions in Nicaragua
and Haiti, failing to address specific needs and characteristics of the
country.
4.
UNAVEM
II did a very poor job monitoring the disarmament process and the assembly of
the troops. That allowed for both UNITA
and the government to held back soldiers and arms and consequently be able to
restart the war at the end of the elections in 1992
United Nations failure to
take control of the peace process in Angola was in fact a great contributor for
the failure of that process. They
choose to take a role of mere observers, and allowed the control of the operation
to be taken by the two parties. That
way, the differences among these two parties kept getting in the way of the
process. The absence of a stronger and
more committed UN presence felt to give the all process the legitimacy it
needed in order to succeed.