Mozambique 1992–1994

Abstract

With the creation of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique (ONUMOZ) in December 1992, the UN had established its thirteenth peacekeeping operation of the post-Cold War era. Thus, in only four years the UN had equaled the number of operations it had conducted during the previous 40. However, the optimism that had been generated in the initial post-Cold War period was now beginning to waver. As described in the previous chapter, democratic elections in Angola had been followed by a return to war and many analysts were blaming the UN’s failure to disarm UNITA for the ease with which it had resumed. At the same time, the refusal of the Khmer Rouge to disarm and participate in elections in Cambodia was placing that country’s whole peace process in jeopardy. It was to be in this climate of dejection and uncertainty that the peace negotiations for Mozambique were to conclude.