Known arms embargo violations during the mandate period

Overview of the arms embargo violations during the mandate period

The impact of the embargo in the transport sector was 182,048,000 during this period.

During the period, there were no suspected aircraft movements involving arms embargo violations in the Somali airspace or at the Somali airports.

Despite the growing number of cases of arms embargo violations, the trend of relying less on air transport to facilitate the transportation of arms in violation of the embargo seems to have continued during the current mandate period.

In the health sector, the impact of the embargo has been calculated at 75.7 million during the period covered by the present report.

This constitutes a 378 per cent increase in the number of transactions, or arms embargo violations, from the previous reporting period, October to December 2004.

The dramatic increase in the number of arms embargo violations during the current reporting period over that of the previous mandate period is in direct correlation to the increasingly hostile tensions between TFG and the opposition.

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An arms embargo was imposed on the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo pursuant to Security Council resolution 1493 (2003) for an initial period of 12 months.

The current mandate period has been marked by a dramatic rise in the numbers of arms embargo violations, which have involved 10 Ministers and the President of TFG.

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Status of the embargo

Monitoring the arms embargo

Territory of the embargo

Scope of the arms embargo

Monitoring of the arms embargo

C. Improving the arms embargo

Scope of the arms embargo

Examples of arms embargo violations

E. Arms embargo ban implemented?

C. Arms embargo ban implemented?

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Recommendations an integrated arms embargo approach

6380 Prohibition for political reasons (embargo)

The fact that Cuban enterprises are prevented by the embargo from using the United States dollar in international transactions caused one such enterprise EGREM an exchange rate loss of 57,000 during the period under consideration.

Reported violations of arms embargo in Somalia

The embargo has a marked extraterritorial component.

Resolution 1596 (2005) extended the embargo to the entire Democratic Republic of the Congo, and helped to clarify the exemptions to the embargo.

The integrated arms embargo concept is detailed below.

Monitoring Team activities related to the arms embargo

(d) Monitor the implementation of the arms embargo.

The Bakaraaha Arms Market in Mogadishu has continued throughout the current mandate period to play a major role as an intermediary for channelling arms to members of the opposition and others in violation of the arms embargo.

Analysis of trends and patterns of arms embargo violations

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo

Growing opposition to the embargo within the United States

Information, documents and pictures obtained by the Monitoring Group on indicate that despite the newly elected Transitional Federal Government or, perhaps, because of it, arms embargo violations continued to occur at a brisk and alarming rate during the mandate period.

Analysis of the trends and patterns of arms embargo violations

The embargo against Cuba is an act of economic war.

The embargo has caused enormous suffering for the Cuban people.