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The UN Security Council votes to renew sanctions on the Central African Republic

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Published on: June 15, 2023

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After their deployment in Bangassou, in the Mbomou prefecture in the south-east of the Central African Republic, 150 elements of the Central African Armed Forces (FACA) work in close collaboration with the MINUSCA Force’s peacekeepers. Joint patrols are carried out daily in the city and its peripheries to reassure and protect the population, working for a permanent return of peace and the authority of the State in this region.humanitarian workers.

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday agreed to review arms embargo measures on Central African Republic by the end of September if the country makes progress in areas including reform of its security sector and management of its weapons.

CAR has been under a U.N. arms embargo since 2013 so weapons shipments to the government must be approved by the U.N. Security Council’s CAR sanctions committee, made up of the Council’s 15 members. It operates by consensus.

Central African Republic has long wanted the arms embargo restrictions on the government to be lifted and French U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre said the resolution adopted on Thursday show the council was open to that.

Last month Russia and China abstained in a Security Council vote to extend the peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic because the French-drafted resolution did not make direct reference to Russia’s efforts to help the country.

In the resolution adopted on Thursday, the Security Council said it would establish benchmarks by the end of April for CAR “that could serve in guiding the Security Council to review the arms embargo measures.”

It further asked U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to assess CAR’s progress against those benchmarks by the end of July. The council will then review the arms embargo measures by the end of September

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