Sentences with phrase «un arms embargo»

Despite years of denials, in April 2003 President Taylor's spokesperson Vaani Paasewe admitted in an interview that «it was true that, as Global Witness said in its report, revenues from Liberia's logging industry had been used to import weapons recently despite the UN arms embargo...» (1) Taylor referred to OTC as his «pepperbush» — a Liberian expression implying a personal interest, and a warning to people to leave the company alone.

It is also financing the Liberian government's violation of the UN arms embargo, which the Liberian government has publicly admitted to (6),» says Alice Blondel, Global Witness Lead Campaigner.

The United Nations Group of Experts is mandated by the Security Council to monitor the UN arms embargo on DRC.

Not exact matches

Drawing on Isaiah's vision, we should pursue the following strategy: First, while patiently supporting the embargo against Iraq, we should begin placing our armed forces in the Middle East under the Military Staff Committee of the Security Council, as described in chapter VII of the UN Charter.

This territorial embargo is how all UN Security Council arms embargoes are interpreted, unless the resolution says otherwise and the embargo is specifically limited to particular groups (as happens on occasion, eg see SC Res 1807, para. 1 on Congo).

Res 1973, when the Security Council has authorised States to take enforcement action after having previoulsy imposed an arms embargoes, that arms embargo is not deemed to apply to those States when acting within the UN mandate.

On 24th April 2006, Dutch timber baron Gus Kouwenhoven will go on trial in The Hague on charges of committing war crimes against Liberians and violating a United Nations (UN) arms embargo.