Memorandum to attenders of the Namibia Meeting and other interested folks from Jackie Asheeke. The memorandum says for those attending the brief Namibia strategy meeting two weeks ago, you will remember that at our meeting, we briefly touched on the issue of where U.S. funding for the UN Peace Keeping Account would come from? The memorandum says since then, I have been making several inquiries on this question and have found the whole situation quite complex and difficult. The memorandum says presently in the FY 1989 budget, at the back, in the section of Supplemental funds, there is a request for a transfer of monies from DOD and State to the UN Peace Keeping Account; the attached chart was...
Memorandum to attenders of the Namibia Meeting and other interested folks from Jackie Asheeke. The memorandum says for those attending the brief Namibia strategy meeting two weeks ago, you will remember that at our meeting, we briefly touched on the issue of where U.S. funding for the UN Peace Keeping Account would come from? The memorandum says since then, I have been making several inquiries on this question and have found the whole situation quite complex and difficult. The memorandum says presently in the FY 1989 budget, at the back, in the section of Supplemental funds, there is a request for a transfer of monies from DOD and State to the UN Peace Keeping Account; the attached chart was prepared by Carol Gish at FCNL, who is following this whole thing very closely. The memorandum says the State Department sought a $150 million authorization from the Congress to send these monies to the UN Peace Keeping Account then. The memorandum says I have been in touch with Warren Kane of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Commerce and the Judiciary which has jurisdiction on the appropriations for the Peace Keeping Account in the Senate; while he filled me in on additional details, he is not very forthcoming and is getting a little tired of my questions. The memorandum says just to clarify what Tim says a bit further: he says that they want a nonbinding Resolution from the Congress which says that if a reconciliation government emerges in Angola and talks with UNITA begin and bear fruit, then the U.S. will normalize relations with Angola, lift restrictions on development aid and loans to Angola through SADCC and other places, and most importantly, end all covert funding to UNITA. The memorandum discusses DOD (Department of Defense), FCNL (Friends Committee on National Legislation), UNTAG (United Nations Transitional Assistance Group), the Cuban/South African withdrawal from Angola, the Reagan Administration, Senator DeConcini, funding for UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, peace negotiations, Jesse Helms, Kathleen Moody, Fred Eckhard, the UN Budget Office, Secretary of State Baker, Chester Crocker, Tim Roemer, OMB (Office of Management and Budget), Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Graham-Rudman-Hollings, Steve Weisman, and SADCC (Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference).
