UN lifts last sanctions on Liberia in sign of support
UNITED NATIONS- The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to lift the last remaining sanctions on Liberia in a sign of support for the government's progress toward peace after two civil wars.
The resolution adopted Wednesday by the UN's most powerful body terminated an arms embargo on armed groups and dissolved the council committee and its panel of experts that monitored Liberian sanctions.
The council imposed arms and diamond embargoes on Liberia in 2001 to stop government revenues from those industries from being used to fuel civil war and a ban on timber exports in 2003. The timber sanctions were lifted in 2006 and the diamond sanctions in 2007.
