United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Monuc
2 April 2008
With the adoption of resolution 1807 on Monday 31 March 2008, the United Nations Security Council decided that the arms embargo which it had imposed on all parties in the DRC by resolution 1493 (2003), would not apply any more to the DRC government.
Under the terms of this resolution, the Council decided that all states, including the DRC, should take the necessary measures to prevent the direct or indirect transfer of weapons to all Congolese and foreign armed groups in North and South Kivu and Ituri, and to the groups which did not sign the overall and inclusive Goma agreement in the DRC.
Resolution 1807 also urges all other states to continue to respect these measures, including nongovernmental agencies and other agencies undertaking activities on Congolese territory.
The resolution engages all states, in particular those of the Great Lakes, to support the application of the embargo on weapons, and requests MONUC and the Group of experts to continue to concentrate their monitoring activities in Ituri and in North and South-Kivu.
For this purpose, the Security Council exhorts all parties and states to guarantee the security of the experts and to allow unlimited access without obstacles to the people, documents and sites to which the Group of Experts would consider likely to be of interest for the execution of its mandate.
The Secuirty Council will re-examine the measures concerned on 31 December, 2008 at the latest, in order to adjust them, according to the consolidation of security in the DRC, with a particular emphasis on the reform of the security sector, including the integration of the armed forces and the reform of the national police force, as well as the Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Resettlement and Reintegration (DDRRR) of Congolese and foreign armed groups.
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