Security Council resolution 1171 (1998) [on the lifting of the prohibitions on the sale or supply of arms and related matériel to Sierra Leone]
[Termination of the arms embargo against Sierra Leone]

Decides to terminate the remaining prohibitions imposed by paragraphs 5 and 6 of resolution 1132 (1997); further decides that all States shall prevent the sale or supply of arms and related matériel of all types to Sierra Leone other than to the Government of Sierra Leone through named points of entry on a list to be supplied by that Government to the Secretary-General; further decides that States shall notify all exports from their territories of arms or related matériel to Sierra Leone to the Committee established by resolution 1132 (1997), that the Government of Sierra Leone shall mark, register and notify to the Committee all imports made by it of arms and related matériel, and that the Committee shall report regularly to the Council on notifications so received; decides that all States shall prevent the entry into or transit through their territories of leading members of the former military junta and of the Revolutionary United Front, as designated by the Committee established by 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, and provided that nothing in this paragraph shall oblige a State to refuse entry to its territory to its own nationals.

Adopted unanimously, 3889th meeting

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Concerns the lifting of prohibitions on the sale or supply of arms and related matériel to Sierra Leone.