SA backs proposed I Coast arms embargo
510764
South Africa on Monday threw its weight behind a proposed UN arms embargo on conflict-wracked Ivory Coast ahead of a crucial vote on the issue in the Security Council.
200055
European Union officials have agreed to recommend lifting the bloc&#39;s arms embargo on Libya following pressure from Italy, which wants to help the North African country tackle illegal migrants, an EU diplomatic source says.
568625
Visiting Defense Minister Robert Hill defended on Friday Canberra&#39;s proposal on a new maritime security zone following Indonesia&#39;s rejection.
761904
BRUSSELS - The European Union agreed on Wednesday to lift its arms embargo on Libya after pressure from Italy, which wants to help the North African country tackle illegal migrants, an EU diplomatic source said.
217187
Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance came out in support on Monday of the government&#39;s initiative to secure for South Africa a permanent seat on the United Nations security council.
747228
Amnesty International today published an open letter from Irene Khan, Amnesty's Secretary General, to EU Heads of State and governments asking them to immediately halt sales or transfers of arms to all parties in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Israel, naturally, reacted negatively to the proposal. Mark Regev, spokesman for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that an arms embargo "would leave every man woman and child in this country to face a multitude of hostile challenges that there are here. It ignores the real threats faced by the Jewish state and gives comfort to those who say Israel should be wiped off the map."
676664
African leaders supported an arms embargo and other UN sanctions on the Ivory Coast government and rebels on Sunday.
300817
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The African Union (AU) said yesterday it supports United Nations and French intervention in Ivory Coast as UN Security Council held talks last night on a French resolution to impose an arms embargo on Ivory Coast.
488291
Anti-arms campaigners on Thursday ratcheted up their campaign for an international treaty to curb the arms trade with an exhibition of photographs of the aftermath of gun violence.
464305
EU foreign ministers agreed to lift  an arms embargo on Libya on Monday, despite fears for Bulgarian  and Palestinian medical workers sentenced to death there, but  imposed a visa ban on senior officials from Myanmar.
75698
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said  in comments broadcast Thursday that a U.N. arms embargo could  help contain rebels fighting the government, but vowed to  create a "real army" and rebuild his air force.
418897
BRUSSELS : European Union (EU) officials agreed in principle to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure from Italy. Italy has for several months been pressing its EU counterparts to lift the embargo imposed
129230
Loyalist paramilitaries will respond positively if the IRA goes out of business and decommissions all its weapons, Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine has said.
145126
Libya took another big step towards respectability yesterday when the European Union&#39;s most senior diplomats agreed that an arms embargo against Tripoli should be lifted.
116484
South African President Thabo Mbeki is sending his defence minister to Ivory Coast this week following encouraging talks with protagonists in the country&#39;s worsening conflict, officials said on Monday.
211562
Supporters of Ivory Coast's President  Laurent Gbagbo criticized on Tuesday a United Nations decision  to impose an arms embargo on the world's top cocoa grower but  rebel leaders welcomed the move.
538824
BANGKOK Wildlife conservationists and government delegates approved proposals by Namibia and SA yesterday to kill and export as hunting trophies a small number of endangered black rhinos, protected under an international treaty.