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Resolution link Resolution Date Unofficial Description
S/RES/2713 (2023) 01 December 2023

Imposes an arm embargo on Al-Shabaab in Somalia, with exemptions and exceptions for other actors in Somalia, and decides that the measures shall not apply to deliveries or supplies to the GFRS, SNA, NISA, SNPF and the Somali Custodial Corps; reaffirms the charcoal ban and IED components ban, and adjusts and adds to the list of components; renews the maritime interdiction of charcoal, weapons or military equipment, and IED components, until 15 December 2024; recalls that resolution 2664 (2022) supersedes and replaces the humanitarian exemption to the assets freeze in resolution 2662 (2022); renames the Committee; renews the mandate of the Panel of Experts, which the Council also renames, until 15 January 2025.
S/RES/2714 (2023) 01 December 2023

Lifts the general and complete arms embargo on all deliveries of weapons and military equipment to Somalia established in resolution 733 (1992) as amended by subsequent resolutions.
S/RES/2711 (2023) 15 November 2023

Renews the maritime interdiction of charcoal, weapons or military equipment, and IED components until 1 December 2023; renews the mandate of the Panel of Experts until 31 December 2023.
S/RES/2696(2023) 07 September 2023

Decides to authorise the Federal Government of Somalia to implement its proposal for the one-off, complete disposal of the charcoal stockpile.
S/RES/2662(2022) 17 November 2022

Further eases the partially lifted arms embargo and refers to additional progressive lifting of the arms embargo procedures in light of progress made against certain benchmarks; reaffirms the charcoal ban, the IED components ban, and the humanitarian exemption to the assets freeze; provides for a one-off, complete disposal of existing charcoal stockpiles; renews the maritime interdiction of charcoal, weapons or military equipment, and IED components until 15 November 2023; renews, until 15 December 2023, the mandate of the Panel of Experts on Somalia.
S/RES/2661(2022) 15 November 2022

Extends resolution 2607 (2021) until 17 November 2022.
S/RES/2607(2021) 15 November 2021

Reaffirms the partial lift of the arms embargo on Somalia and the humanitarian exemption to the assets freeze without specifying an expiry date; renews and expands the maritime interdiction of charcoal and weapons or military equipment by including IED components until 15 November 2022; reaffirms the IED components ban; renews, until 15 December 2022, the mandate of the Panel of Experts on Somalia.
S/RES/2551(2020) 12 November 2020

Renews the partial lift of the arms embargo on Somalia and the humanitarian exemption to the assets freeze without specifying an expiry date; renews the maritime interdiction of charcoal and weapons or military equipment until 15 November 2021; reaffirms the IED components ban and adds to the list of components; renews, until 15 December 2021, the mandate of the Panel of Experts on Somalia.
S/RES/2498(2019) 15 November 2019

Consolidates and streamlines the provisions of the arms embargo; imposes an IED components ban; extends, until 15 December 2020, the mandate of the Panel of Experts; renews, until 15 November 2020, the partial lift of the arms embargo on Somalia, the humanitarian exemption to the assets freeze, and the maritime interdiction of charcoal and weapons or military equipment.
S/RES/2444(2018) 14 November 2018

Renames the Committee; terminates the mandate of the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group; establishes the Panel of Experts on Somalia until 15 December 2019; renews, until 15 November 2019, the partial lift of the arms embargo on Somalia, the humanitarian exemption to the assets freeze, and the maritime interdiction of charcoal and weapons or military equipment; lifts the sanctions on Eritrea.