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U.N. experts recommend widening arms embargo to all Sudan |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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U.N. experts have recommended that an arms embargo on Darfur be extended to all of Sudan as well as neighboring Chad to combat what they called "flagrant violations" of the ban by Khartoum and Darfur rebel groups.
In a report for the Security Council released on Tuesday, a panel of four experts said both sides in Darfur were bent on a military solution to the five-year conflict and that the peacekeeping force had so far been ineffectual.
The panel called on the council to look again at options for widening the embargo to cover all of Sudan, Chad and the northern parts of the Central African Republic.
It added that monitoring it should be entrusted to the UN-African Union peacekeeping force, known as UNAMID.
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