Read More...UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to lift the last remaining sanctions on Liberia in a sign of support for the government’s progress toward peace after two civil wars. The resolution adopted by the U.N.’s most powerful body terminated an arms embargo on armed groups and dissolved the council committee and its panel of experts that monitored Liberian sanctions. Liberia was battered by civil wars that left 200,000 people dead and displaced half of the country’s 3 million people. The Security Council imposed arms and diamond embargoes on Liberia in 2001 to stop government revenues from those industries from being used to fuel the war and in 2003 it added a ban on a major export, timber.
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