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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has announced the names of five experts to sit on a monitoring group to ensure that UN Security Council sanctions on the Taliban Islamic Movement of Afghanistan are enforced, according to a letter to the Council released on Thursday, 20 September.
The move came in response to a request by the Council in July 2000 that he establish a sanctions monitoring group and enforcement support team to offer assistance to states bordering Taliban-controlled territory in Afghanistan (and other states, as appropriate) to increase their capacity to implement the sanctions against the Taliban, the UN reported. The experts have also been mandated to collate, assess, verify wherever possible and make recommendations on information regarding violations of the sanctions.
The sanctions were imposed in 1999, and tightened the following year, to compel the group to hand over indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden and to close all terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
The new sanctions monitoring team is to be headed by Michael Chandler of the United Kingdom. It will also include: Philippe Graver of France, Amod Gurung of Nepal, Ashraf Mohsen Mohamed Mohsen of Egypt and Daniel Yorks of the United States.
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