Imprensa Internacional Sobre Angola Fevereiro - Maio 2001
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Imprensa internacional sobre Angola Fevereiro - Maio 2001 01 February 2001 Euromoney Mandated arrangers BNP Paribas, Glencore, Natexis Banques Populaires and Societe Generale have launched general syndication of a $600 million pre-export facility for Angolan state-owned oil firm Sonangol, according to banking sources. In senior syndication, Citibank, Commerzbank, Credit Agricole Indosuez, Fortis Bank, HypoVereinsbank and KBC Bank joined the deal. They were asked to underwrite $50 million or $30 million. The four-year amortising term loan is priced at 350 bps over LIBOR. The average life of the deal is two and a half years. In general, five levels of participation are on offer, with the top senior lead manager ticket paying a fee of 60 bps for a $25 million ticket. Proceeds of the loan will be used by Sonangol to fund an agreed supply of oil to trading house Glencore. Title Commit ($Mils.) Fee (bps) Snr lead manager 25 60 Lead manager 20 40 Co-lead manager 15 25 Manager 10 15 Co-manager 5 10 From Alister (?) Sonangol et ESSO annoncent une découverte de pétrole en offshore angolais LISBONNE, 5 mai (AFP) - La Société Nationale des Combustibles de l'Angola (Sonangol) et ESSO Exploration Angola ont annoncé vendredi la découverte d'un puits de pétrole sur le site d'exploitation Bloc-15 situé au large de l'Angola à environ 310 km au nord-ouest de Luanda, a rapporté samedi l'agence Lusa. Les résultats des tests effectués sur le puits "Vicango" - le dixième de ce bloc - perforé à 2.199 mètres n'ont pas été révélés, a précisé l'agence portugaise. Le Bloc-15 est exploité par un consortium formé par l'opérateur Esso Exploration Angola qui détient 40% du capital, et par BP Exploration Angola (26,67%), AGIP Angola Exploration (20%) et STATOIL (13,33%). Quatre nouveaux puits ont été découverts depuis le début de l'année: deux au Bloc-18 et deux autres au Bloc-15. Les côtes angolaises sont divisées en 74 blocs d'exploration en eaux profondes et ultra- profondes. L'Angola, deuxième pays producteur d'Afrique, produit actuellement quelque 800.000 barils par jour. Les autorités de Luanda prévoient une production quotidienne d'un million de barils l'année prochaine. Les réserves pétrolières d'Angola sont estimées à environ 10 milliards de barils. EXPRESSO 28 de Abril de 2001 A PORTUGAL Telecom aliou-se em Angola, por 2,85 milhões de contos, a uma empresa de telecomunicações móveis, a Unitel, controlada pela filha do Presidente angolano, José Eduardo dos Santos. O negócio foi consumado em Dezembro último, depois de o Conselho de Ministros do Governo de Angola ter atribuído à empresa da filha de Eduardo dos Santos os direitos de exploração do serviço móvel de telefones celulares em todo o território angolano. E de um diploma do próprio Presidente ter autorizado a dispensa de concurso público para conceder o negócio à empresa da sua filha, Isabel Santos, por «razões de manifesto interesse do Estado». Sendo que os «interesses do Estado» em Angola, como já se percebera com o escândalo dos dinheiros das petrolíferas e dos diamantes, são uma resultante dos interesses da família Dos Santos e da restante «nomenklatura» do partido no poder. Face à divulgação pública deste ínvio negócio com o corrupto poder de Luanda, personalizado na filha do Presidente, a PT começou por alegar que desconhecia «em detalhe» a composição accionista da empresa com a qual se associara. Para, uns dias mais tarde, resolver assumir, pela voz do seu presidente, Murteira Nabo, que «não se faz política na PT; somos uma empresa privada, que faz negócios». O presidente executivo da PT Internacional, Caldeira da Silva, adiantaria mesmo que a PT «avalia cada negócio com critérios empresariais rígidos e não políticos». É uma defesa que não colhe nem comove. Antes pelo contrário. Porque esquece que a PT é uma empresa que tem o seu presidente e administradores nomeados pelo Estado, o que a obriga a outros critérios que não apenas o do lucro a qualquer preço. E a defesa que Murteira Nabo e Caldeira da Silva fazem, em nome das oportunidades de negócio e sem rodeios, do neocolonialismo e do capitalismo selvagem são incompatíveis com um Estado democrático que não deve tolerar a cumplicidade negocial com regimes totalitários, corruptos e violadores dos direitos humanos - como é o angolano. Por este andar e depois da filha de Eduardo dos Santos, ainda veremos a PT a desbaratar os seus milhões com o tiranete da Coreia do Norte, com os «taliban» do Afeganistão ou com o respeitável Saddam Hussein. Qualquer deles oferecerá excelentes oportunidades de negócio. Sem política à mistura. Só negócio. Title: Government Open to Discuss Peace - Home Minister Source: ANGOP Date: April 25, 2001 Luanda, 04/25 - The Angolan Minister of Home Affairs, Fernando Dias dos Santos "Nando", said that his government remained open to listen and discuss all peace proposals. The minister addressed a parliament session on the way-out of crisis in Angola, in a debate proposed by MP Manuel Savihemba, for the opposing UNITA party. The home minister termed as "positive" Savihemba's initiative, but his proposal "is not original because it could cause some doubts". His approval would cause much confusion, warned the minister adding that the government "is committed to peace and is working to get it with good will". He reminded the MPs that dialogue had already taken place through a commission for peace and national reconciliation set up recently and chaired by the head of state, Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Nando added that "Jonas Savimbi is an Angolan citizen to whom no one can deny the rights of citizenship, but who is out of law and out of the UNITA party itself". He stated that for Savimbi's reintegration into Angolan society he should cease hostilities unilaterally and surrender his weapons to the United Nations. UNITA should also solve their internal problems, reintegrate their personnel in national life, and conclude the unfinished tasks in the Lusaka protocol to permit and participate in the upcoming elections, he said. With this, he said, "we are giving the possibility for Jonas Savimbi to come, but he must do it disarmed. It is not true that the government wants war only as a solution to stop war" - said the home minister. Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP) Date: 27 Apr 2001 Certification to combat conflict diamonds due in November by Emmanuel Defouloy BRUSSELS, April 27 (AFP) - An international certification system to curb the flow of conflict diamonds is to be in place in November, participants at a Brussels conference on conflict diamonds said Friday. Thibedi Ramontja, who chairs the so-called Kimberley Process against conflict diamonds, said the "main characteristics" of the new certificates of origin would be agreed at a meeting in Moscow in July. "In November, at a meeting in Gaborone, an international certification will be in place," said Ramontja, whose home country of South Africa is the world's biggest diamond producer. Conflict diamonds, which change hands outside established trading channels, are blamed for bankrolling rebel movements in Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The three-day conference in Brussels, held behind closed doors, brought together representatives from 38 nations, the World Diamond Council, the European Commission, the United Nations, the World Customs Organization, the Southern African Development Community and non-governmental organizations. It follows a meeting in Belgium port and gem trading city of Antwerp last July at which international diamond merchants proposed tough new measures aimed at choking off the traffic in conflict diamonds. On the sidelines of this week's meeting, the DR Congo government signed a certification agreement with Antwerp's Diamond High Council covering all diamonds from all Congolese territory under government control. It does not apply in eastern and northern parts of the country previously known as Zaire which are held by rebels or the Rwandan and Ugandan armies. The two latter states are not part of the Kimberley process. Signing the accord were DR Congo's vice minister for mines Ambroise Mbaka and the Diamond High Council's managing director Peter Meeus. It follows Kinshasa's liberalization of the diamond sector -- the country's prime source of foreign exchange -- earlier this month, with the suspension of a gem-dealing monopoly granted to an Israeli firm. The Antwerp council has previously helped put into place similar certification systems in Angola and Sierra Leone, where conflict diamonds help finance UNITA and Revolutionary United Front guerrillas respectively. "We actively support the Kimberley process, but the industry wants immediate results on the field," Meeus said. "Step by step, we are closing the net for conflict diamonds." Participants at the Brussels meeting polished details of the proposed international certification system, which will include certificates of origin, import certificates to be sent back to exporting states, and seals. The first Kimberley process meeting took place in Windhoek last February. Others will be held in Moscow, London, Luanda and Gaborone. In a statement, Belgium's foreign ministry said: "Papers are being prepared for the Moscow meeting covering such topics as minimum standards for alluvial diamonds, problems facing countries that both produce and import diamonds, and bureaucratic burdens that certification schemes may impose." def-rom/sas AFP Angolan Separatists Release Portuguese Hostage VOA News 4 Apr 2001 01:33 UTC A separatist group in Angola's oil-rich Cabinda enclave has released one of three Portuguese hostages held for nearly a year. Sergio Fidalgo was freed Tuesday and flown back to Portugal. The separatist group has reportedly signaled a willingness to consider releasing its other two hostages if Lisbon opens negotiations with the group.