21.   He said the Angolan peace process was well on track, apart from the delay in setting up quarters for U.N. troops.

22.   He said the Angolan peace process was well on track, apart from the delay in setting up quarters for UN troops.

23.   His departure followed the belated first meeting of a joint commission tasked with implementing the Angolan peace accords signed two weeks ago.

24.   Implementing the Angolan peace process is on course despite certain physical obstacles, UN special envoy Alioune Blondine Beye declared here Thursday.

25.   A joint commission tasked with implementing the Angolan peace accords signed two weeks ago held a belated first meeting Sunday following the arrival in Luanda of UNITA envoys.

26.   Beye returned to Luanda Thursday from visits to Namibia, Zaire, Zimbabwe and Zambia centred on discussions on the Angolan peace process with the leaders of those countries.

27.   Following the meeting on Tuesday, Sacala said he had briefed Vieira on the Angolan peace process.

28.   The tortured Angolan peace process has held together despite repeated accusations of ceasefire breaches by both sides.

29.   United Nations envoy Alioune Blondine Beye expressed impatience late Friday at the slowness with which the UNITA armed opposition is implementing military agreements in the Angolan peace process.

30.   We applaud the peaceful and democratic transition of power in South Africa, the successful holding of elections elsewhere in Southern Africa, and the Angolan peace process.