UN Security Council Extends Sanctions Against the Central African Republic (January 30, 2018) [1]
On January 30, 2018, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2399 [3] and extended the sanctions regime against the Central African Republic (CAR) until January 31, 2019. Acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the Council extended an arms embargo, travel ban, and asset freeze on certain individuals designated by the Sanctions Committee. As noted in the press release [4], the “arms embargo would not apply to supplies intended solely for the support or use by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), European Union training missions, French forces and other State forces providing training.” The Council also determined that the Panel of Experts will “[c]ollect, in cooperation with MINUSCA, and report to the Committee acts of incitement to violence, in particular on an ethnic or religious basis, that undermine the peace, stability or security of the CAR and identify those perpetrators.”