DRC: Security Council Extends arms embargo

The Security Council has renewed for a second year an arms embargo on all the parties to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and also extended the term of a panel of experts monitoring compliance with the embargo. Resolution 1552, adopted unanimously, says the parties to the Congolese conflict have failed to comply with the embargo, and therefore the sanctions, originally imposed in Resolution 1493 last July, would be extended until July next year.