Humanitarian situation extremely difficult. (Angola).

Significant progress has been achieved in the peace process in Angola, though much remains to be done, according to lbrahim Gambari, the top United Nations envoy to the country. He said that in its first four months of operation, the UN Mission in Angola (UNMA) had "successfully initiated activity in nearly all the areas mandated to it". The Mission's main areas of focus are raising awareness of the humanitarian situation and the plight of more than 4 million internally displaced people, refugees, ex-combatants and their dependents, as well as organizing an international donors' conference for reconstruction. The overall humanitarian situation remained "extremely difficult", he said. The six-month mandate of UNMA ends on 15 February 2003.

Several key tasks remain under the Lusaka Protocol, including the provision of information by the Government and UNITA concerning the location of landmines and the disarming of civilians; both parties will address these responsibilities through a bilateral mechanism. A tentative date for a donor conference had been set for the first quarter of 2003 in Brussels.