United Nations Security Council Resolution 1171 – Sierra Leone

RESOLUTION 1171 (1998)

The Security Council,

Recalling its resolutions 1132 (1997) of 8 October 1997, 1156 (1998) of16 March 1998 and 1162 (1998) of 17 April 1998 and the statements of itsPresident of 26 February 1998 (S/PRST/1998/5) and 20 May 1998 (S/PRST/1998/13),

Welcoming the efforts of the Government of Sierra Leone to restore peaceful and secure conditions in the country, to re-establish effective administration and the democratic process, and to promote national reconciliation,

Deploring the continued resistance to the authority of the legitimate Government of Sierra Leone and stressing the urgency for all rebels to put an end to the atrocities, cease their resistance and lay down their arms,

Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,

1. Decides to terminate the remaining prohibitions imposed by paragraphs 5 and 6 of resolution 1132 (1997);

2. Further decides, with a view to prohibiting the sale and supply ofarms and related matériel to non-governmental forces in Sierra Leone, that allStates shall prevent the sale or supply, by their nationals or from theirterritories, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, of arms and relatedmatériel of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles andequipment, paramilitary equipment and spare parts for the aforementioned, toSierra Leone other than to the Government of Sierra Leone through named pointsof entry on a list to be supplied by that Government to the Secretary-General,who shall promptly notify all Member States of the United Nations of the list;

3. Decides also that the restrictions referred to in paragraph 2 aboveshall not apply to the sale or supply of arms and related matériel for the soleuse in Sierra Leone of the Military Observer Group of the Economic Community ofWest African States (ECOMOG) or the United Nations;

4. Further decides that States shall notify all exports from theirterritories of arms or related matériel to Sierra Leone to the Committeeestablished by resolution 1132 (1997), that the Government of Sierra Leone shallmark, register and notify to the Committee all imports made by it of arms andrelated matériel, and that the Committee shall report regularly to the Councilon notifications so received;

5. Decides that all States shall prevent the entry into or transitthrough their territories of leading members of the former military junta and ofthe Revolutionary United Front (RUF), as designated by the Committee establishedby resolution 1132 (1997), provided that the entry into or transit through a particular State of any such person may be authorized by the same Committee, andprovided that nothing in this paragraph shall oblige a State to refuse entry toits territory to its own nationals;

6. Decides that the Committee established by resolution 1132 (1997) shall continue to undertake the tasks referred to in paragraph 10 (a), (b), (c), (d),(f) and (h) of that resolution in relation to paragraphs 2 and 5 above;

7. Expresses its readiness to terminate the measures referred to in paragraphs 2, 4 and 5 above once the control of the Government of Sierra Leone has been fully re-established over all its territory, and when all non-governmental forces have been disarmed and demobilized;

8. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council within 3months of the date of adoption of this resolution, and again within 6 months,regarding, in particular, the export of arms and related matériel referred to in paragraph 2 above, and on progress made towards the objectives referred to in paragraph 7 above;

9. Decides to remain seized of the matter.

Adopted by the Security Council at its 3889th meeting on 5 June 1998.