SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ‘HEINOUS’ TARGETING OF RELIEF FLIGHTS IN ANGOLA
The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack in Angola on Friday
15 June against two World Food Programme-chartered planes, which were en route to Kuito with food supplies.� Fortunately, there were no casualties.
This is the second deliberate attack in the last 10 days against WFP flights and directly impacts on the well-being of the country's most vulnerable civilians.� At present, Kuito has only two days of emergency food stocks to sustain a population of over 200,000 people.
The Secretary-General reiterates that this heinous targeting of relief personnel, who carry out humanitarian operations on the basis of impartiality and neutrality, is unacceptable.
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