SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE CONCERNING SIERRA LEONE ADOPTS CONSOLIDATED GUIDELINES FOR ITS WORK
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SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE CONCERNING SIERRA LEONE ADOPTS CONSOLIDATED GUIDELINES FOR ITS WORK
19980618 The following was issued today by the Security Council Committee concerning Sierra Leone:The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1132 (1997) concerning Sierra Leone adopted today, 18 June 1998, new consolidated guidelines for the conduct of its work, which incorporate the relevant provisions contained in resolution 1171 (1998) adopted by the Council on 5 June 1998.
The Committee also decided to transmit the Guidelines to all States, drawing their attention to operative paragraphs 2 and 5, and particularly to paragraph 4 of resolution 1171 (1998), which requires States to notify the Committee of all exports from their territories of arms and related matériel to Sierra Leone.
The Chairperson of the Committee will also address a letter to the Government of Sierra Leone requesting that notifications of all imports made by it of arms and related matériel be communicated to the Committee, in compliance with paragraph 4 of resolution 1171 (1998).
The Chairperson appealed to Member States, to transmit all relevant information they may have on violations of the mandatory arms embargo as well as all exports of arms or related matériel to non-governmental forces in Sierra Leone.
According to Security Council resolution 1171 (1998), the sale and supply of arms and related matériel of all types to the Government of Sierra Leone shall be made through named points of entry. In this connection, the Committee took note of a communication dated 9 June 1998 from the Government of Sierra Leone to the Secretary-General, providing a list of points of entry as follows:
-- Kambia and Kabala (from the Republic of Guinea)
-- Bo-Waterside and Koindu (from the Republic of Liberia)
-- Lungi International Airport, Lungi, and Queen Elizabeth II Quay, Cline Town, (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
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