Arms Embargo: Bicesse Accords Implementation
Implementations
Arms Embargo – 1991
The Bicesse Accord prohibited the United States, the USSR, and all other countries from supplying lethal material to all parties in the Angolan conflict. After the agreement was signed in 1991, there have been zero reports of either party acquiring additional arms.
Arms Embargo – 1992
Throughout most of 1992, neither party imported lethal material. However, reports suggest that Brazil sold weapons to the government of Angola in December 1992, following the resumption of hostilities after the general election.1
1 Angola: Arms Trade and Violations of the Laws of War since the 1992 Elections, Human Rights Watch Arms Project, November 1994.