liberia: taylor accused of violating UN arms embargo

A panel of UN experts has accused the government of Liberian President Charles Taylor of violating an arms embargo imposed on the west African nation more than two years ago, the UN information agency IRIN said Thursday. The country received an air delivery of "six cargo aircraft in June, July and August 2002 containing weapons and ammunition supplies totalling over 200 tons", the experts said in the report, delivered to the UN Security Council on October 24.