Luanda — The Government of Angola Tuesday publicly denounced in Luanda, the resumption, by the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch, of accusations of corruption and mismanagement and of an alleged Government's insensibleness toward the social drama affecting many Angolan families.

According to the Angolan Government, HRW resumed, in a report published on Tuesday, the groundless accusations previously made by certain international circles, according to which more than four billion US dollars from oil revenues have disappeared from State coffers between 1997 and 2002.

The Angolan Government, in a press communique released on Tuesday, tells the national and the international public opinion that there has never been time any independent audit accounting have cross-checked these accusations.

It informs, on the other hand, that the first phase of the diagnosis study of the oil sector has already been published, and provides an ample information about the financial flows related to oil and that, besides this, the fiscal accounts of the Angolan Government are submitted to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) audit.

The Angolan Govenment can not accountable for estimates of its revenues based on non-credible sources, and reminded that no international financial entities have to date cross-checked the accusations Angola has been accused of.

The insufficiencies still registered in its statistical system, which are already being tackled, or the differences observed in the process of accounting the revenues of the oil sector, decurrent from the convertion of the national currency into dollars, in a scenario marked in the past by widespread instability and volatility of the national currency, can not serve as a scapegoat for the launching of difamation campaigns emerging from the purest fantasy and imagination.

It thus calls the attention for the fact that it was not just by chance the time choosen for one more cruzade, which is damaging for the good name of Angola and its leaders.

Truely, the document adds, at internal level it is being consolidated the process of political stabilization, with decisive advances registered in the peace proces and national reconciliation, and also in the process of economic stabilization, with favourable results in the fight against inflation, the increase of international reserves and in the rehabilitation of economic and social infrastructures.

It refers that, at internal level, it is still fresh the good performance of Angola in the presidency of the UN Security Council and in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the role the country's has been paying in the resolution of political and military conflicts in the sub-region of the African continent.

The communique recalls that it were the political and economic improvements attained in 2003 that led to the admittance of Angola into the African Growth And Opportunity Act (AGOA), an instrument with which the US authorities incentivate good governance in Africa and promote the reinforcement of cooperation between the United States and Africa.

Finally, the note says that the Government of Angola is still determined to push ahead its program of political and economic reforms and reaffirms its commitment to stricly implementing the principles of unity and universality of its revenues and expenditures and commit itself to a major rigour and transparence in the management of public property.