Agenda is agreed for Angolan peace talks
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A day of negotiations in the Ethiopian capital chaired by the UN's special envoy to Angola, Margaret Anstee, reached agreement on an agenda for talks similar to the previous encounter between the two sides in November. The talks are being observed by ambassadors from Portugal, the US and Russia, which brokered the May 1991 peace agreement that was to have ended Angola's 16-year civil war.
Ms Anstee said the talks were dealing with 'very difficult and important issues'. She said the agenda would deal with agreeing a new ceasefire, fulfilling the 1991 peace accords, the United Nations' role and the freeing of all prisoners.
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