The United Nations headquarters in New York. A General Assembly committee on Tuesday passed a resolution expressing "deep concern" at the "ongoing systematic violations" of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Iran.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)
Posted on 11/27/2007 10:58:50 AM PST by NormsRevenge
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Arms embargoes imposed by the United Nations since 1990 have been effective in only about a fourth of the cases, according to a new study.
The report, compiled by The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the Uppsala University Special Program on the Implementation of Targeted Sanctions, said U.N. arms embargoes have had limited impact on both the compliance of targeted countries and the arms that flow to them.
The study looked at 27 U.N. arms embargoes imposed between 1990 and 2006, including the cases of Iraq, Iran and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan as well as African countries such as Liberia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
"There appears to be a correlation between the imposition of a U.N. arms embargo and improved target behavior in only a quarter of the annual observations made for the 27 mandatory U.N. arms embargoes studied," it said.
This was in spite of the arms embargo being "one of the most frequently used forms of sanctions" to maintain international peace and security, it said.
The main problems were listed as corruption, sanctioned targets still having access to arms within the country itself and neighboring and other embargoed countries helping each other secure arms supplies.
In cases where U.N. peacekeepers were present, however, the restrictions were respected more, it said.
To improve the effectiveness of arms embargoes, the report proposed to the U.N. Security Council a set of recommendations, including getting countries to criminalize violations, target those who assist in violating them, and conducting regular reviews of compliance.
The United Nations headquarters in New York. A General Assembly committee on Tuesday passed a resolution expressing "deep concern" at the "ongoing systematic violations" of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Iran.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)
lol
Not quite worthy of breaking News as much as it’s ‘Just more of the same old news.’ ;-)
something to be filed under ‘duh’.
Where the hell is Captain Obvious when we need him?
A Palestinian child rests on a donkey cart outside a United Nations food distribution center in the Jebaliay refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007. The leader of the Gaza Strip's Hamas government on Tuesday sent a defiant message to the Mideast peace conference under way in the U.S., saying it is 'doomed to failure' and warning that his Islamic militant group will not lay down its arms. The comments by Ismail Haniyeh were the latest in a string of increasingly hostile criticism of the Annapolis peace conference by Hamas officials. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
An Iranian soldier stands near a Ghadr-1 missile during an annual military parade in Tehran, September 2007. Iran announced on Tuesday it has built a new missile with a range sufficient to put Israel and US bases in the Middle East within easy reach, amid rising tensions over Tehran's contested nuclear drive.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)
Also of note, water is wet.
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