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Decentralization/Federalism – 1996

There were no developments regarding administrative decentralization in 1996. Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered a speech to the National Assembly in March arguing that national renewal “requires a new approach to government and to the State. For example, it requires you, as legislators, to work together with the executive branch of Government, to make decentralization effective. That means that State administration must be extended throughout the country.”¹

1. “UN Sec-Gen Urges Angola’s National Assembly to Take Crucial Final Steps to Ensure Peace Process,” M2 PressWIRE, March 27, 1996.