130 POLITICAL AND SECURITY QUESTIONS resolution as unacceptable to his Government, the Council. , he said, also rejected the which rejected its implications, particularly two operative paragraphs which condemned it those in the preambular paragraph expressing for preventing the from using An- concern that Portugal had allowed the mer- gola as a base of operations for armed attacks cenaries, to use Angola as a base for their against the Democratic Republic of the Congo armed attacks against the Democratic Republic and which called upon it to put an end imme- of the Congo. He termed the accusation base- diately to the provision of any assistance what- less, unjust and uncalled-for in view of Portu- soever to the mercenaries. gal's offer to have the matter investigated by (See also pp. 713-25.)

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