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Annan names experts for arms embargo enforcement

    NAIROBI

    Responding to a request from the Security Council, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has named two specialists to work in the field of enforcing UN sanctions on Somalia.

    In a letter to the president of the Council, made public on Thursday at UN headquarters, Annan said he had appointed Ian Anthony, an arms expert working for the Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute, and Harjit Singh Sandhu, an expert with experience of Interpol investigations.

    The experts will have 30 days to prepare an "action plan detailing the resources and expertise that the [proposed] Panel of Experts would require to be able to generate independent information on violations and for improving the enforcement of the weapon and military equipment embargo", Annan's letter said.

    Under a Security Council resolution adopted earlier this month, the Panel of Experts would be charged with pursuing any sources that might reveal information related to violations.

    The arms embargo was established by a UN resolution in 1992.

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