[27 Jan 1999] SC/6632 : SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS COMMITTEE CONCERNING SIERRA LEONE HOLDS FIRST MEETING OF 1999
27 January 1999


Press Release
SC/6632


SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS COMMITTEE CONCERNING SIERRA LEONE HOLDS FIRST MEETING OF 1999

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1132 (1997) concerning Sierra Leone held its first meeting of the year, on 25 January, under its new Chairman, Fernando Enrique Petrella, Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations, and took action on the recommendations made in the Committee's annual report to the Security Council (document S/1998/1236 of 31 December 1998).

The Committee reaffirmed the need for close and continued cooperation with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL), and renewed its request for regular reports to the Committee pertaining to compliance with the arms embargo and other aspects of the sanctions regime on Sierra Leone.

In an effort to improve compliance with the travel ban in effect under the sanctions regime, the Committee requested additional information from the Government of Sierra Leone with the view to updating the list of members of the former military junta and the Revolutionary United Front. The Committee invited all Member States to submit any relevant information in this regard.

In connection with alleged violations of the arms embargo, the Chairman was requested by the Committee to seek further information from the Member States concerned.

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