Angola's Finance Minister Jose Pedro de Morais has affirmed on Wednesday, in Luanda, that the USA non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch can always, whenever it wants, have access to the data of the Angolan Government.

"The government of Angola provides regular informations on the national economy to some financial institutions and international organisations that deal with these matters. If the Human Rights Watch requests the Finance Ministry for some data on our economy, we will give them", assured the Angolan minister.

The official made this statement at a press conference summoned for the explanation on the untruths containing in a report released publicly on Tuesday by the Human Rights Watch.

The document, divulged by the USA non-governmental organisation, mentions an alleged embezzlement of about USD 4 billion, from oil revenue in period between 1997/2002, apart from that, the report accuses the Government of corruption, mismanagement and poor governance towards the social drama facing many Angolan families.

Minister Jose Pedro de Morais, who called the press for the explanation, said that there is unfairness on the part of this organisation, which intends to draw cheap profit on the yet unstable social situation of the country.

"There is a certain undue advantage of the situation in the country. We are a nation just out of the armed conflict and in a development stage. And then organisations such as Human Rights Watch are taking the advantage of the situation", he said.

Mr Jose Pedro de Morais has acknowledged, how ever, the deficiencies in the execution system of the country's fiscal accounts, and guaranteed that the Government is doing every effort to ensure its functional balance.

"It is known that the financial management and budgetary system of Angola, as well as its statistics system have insufficiencies. Thus, the Government approved, in 2002 a programme for Modernisation of the Public Finance that systematises the actions that had been developed, aiming the improvement of the financial management and budgeting process", he said.

According to the Angolan minister, the Human Rights Watch has resumed the accusations that were already published in 2003, by some international institutions.