Members of the UN Security Council committee overseeing sanctions against Somalia will visit the region later this month in a bid to boost enforcement of the arms embargo.
According to a UN report, the two-week trip is due to begin on 12 October and will include experts from all 15 Council members.
The group, led by committee chairman, Ambassador Stefan Tafrov of Bulgaria, plans to visit Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen and Somalia itself - security conditions permitting.
The group is expected to check on the capacity of regional states to implement the arms embargo against Somalia and monitor their land, air and sea boundaries. It will encourage them to give the sanctions the force of law in each of their countries.
The group will also be asking all the states for ideas on how to take practical and concrete steps to strengthen the embargo.
The Security Council imposed the embargo in 1992. A four-member panel of experts, investigating violations of the embargo, was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in September 2002 and advises the sanctions committee.
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