Ivory Coast
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Current Regime List: Ivory Coast (html)
Last updated: 02 June 2008
By the adoption of UNSCR 1572 (2004) on 15 November 2004, the United Nations imposed an arms embargo with immediate effect on the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) and also imposed travel restrictions and an assets freeze effective 15 December 2004 on individuals designated by the UN Sanctions Committee as deemed to constitute a threat to the peace and national reconciliation process in the Ivory Coast, in particular those who block implementation of the Linas-Marcoussis and Accra III Agreements, any other person determined as responsible for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Ivory Coast, any person who incites publicly hatred and violence, and any other person determined by the Committee to be in violation of the arms embargo also imposed in UNSCR 1572 (2004).
Selected documents
| 15.11.2004 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1572 (2004) (PDF 39KB) Imposed an arms embargo with immediate effect and also imposed travel restrictions and an assets freeze on designated individuals to take effect on 15 December 2004. Established a Sanctions Committee to oversee the implementation of the measures. |
| 14.06.2006 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 869/2006 (PDF 35KB) Amended Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 560/2005. |
| 13.02.2006 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/2006 (PDF 34KB) Amended Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 560/2005. |
| 12.04.2005 | Council Regulation (EC) No 560/2005 (PDF 74KB) Implemented the measures in UNSCR 1572 (2004) in respect of the freezing of funds and economic resources of persons designated by the United Nations Sanctions Committee. |
| 31.01.2005 | Council Regulation (EC) No 174/2005 (PDF 75KB) Implemented the measures in UNSCR 1572 (2004) in respect of a ban on technical and financial assistance related to military activities and on equipment, which might be used for internal repression. |
| 11.02.2005 | The Ivory Coast (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2005 (SI 2005/253) (PDF 69KB) Implemented certain restrictive measures in UNSCR 1572 (2004) in the UK, amongst other things, the prohibiting of the making available of funds to individuals and entities designated by the UN Sanctions Committee, and provided that breaches of the order be criminal offences. |
| 09.02.2005 | The Export Control (Iraq and Ivory Coast) Order 2005 (SI 2005/232) (PDF 47KB) Provided that breaches of certain provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 174/2005 be criminal offences |
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| 21.12.06 | Financial Sanctions: Ivory Coast |
| 06.06.06 | Financial Sanctions: Ivory Coast |
| 08.02.06 | Financial Sanctions: Ivory Coast |
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