UN extends partial Sudan arms embargo for a month
The UN Security Council voted unanimously to briefly extend the arms embargo on Sudan’s western Darfur region while negotiations continue on a contentious US proposal to impose a nationwide ban.
Sudan’s UN Ambassador Al-Harith Mohamed told the council that a total arms embargo goes against the UN Charter’s guarantee that countries have the right to self-defence and their armed forces have the right to produce and acquire weapons to protect their sovereignty.”The Security Council imposed an arms embargo on the vast Darfur region after violence erupted in 2003 when rebels took up arms against the government in Khartoum, then led by Omar al-Bashir.
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