From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Sat Mar 20 2010 - 06:24:58 EST
Security Council
19 March 2010
SC/9888
Department of Public Information . News and Media Division . New York
Security Council
6289th Meeting (PM)
SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF GROUP MONITORING WEAPONS BANS
IN SOMALIA, ERITREA, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1916 (2009)
Condemning the continued flow of weapons that it said violated its arms
embargoes on Somalia and
Eritrea, the Security Council this afternoon extended for 12 months the
mandate of the group monitoring those measures, expanding its mandate and
giving it three additional experts.
Unanimously adopting resolution 1916 (2010) under the Charter's Chapter VII,
the Council also
condemned the misappropriation and politicization of humanitarian assistance
by armed groups in Somalia and called upon all Member States and United
Nations units to take all feasible steps to mitigate such practices.......
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