Liberia: We Support Lifting Sanction, but With Caution

16 June 2014
The NEWS (Monrovia)
editorial

It Has Been 11 years since the United Nations Security Council imposed armed embargo on Liberia. Although in 2009, the embargo was temporarily lifted; however, the embargo on non-governmental forces and the requirement to notify the Liberian Government of shipments in advance remains in place until the end of 2012.

In November 1992, UN Security Council Resolution 788, adopted unanimously, established an arms embargo on Liberia, though the sanctions committee under the Security Council to monitor its implementation was not formed until UN Security Council resolution 985 in April 1995. This was in reaction to the continued civil conflict in the country at the time.

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