(Rapaport…July 27, 2001) The UN said on July 26 that it has sent a three-member team to Liberia to conduct a preliminary assessment of the potential impact new sanctions would have on the country’s people. The mission was dispatched at the request of the Security Council.
The current UN sanctions against Liberia’s diamond exports and travel ban on its leaders were imposed on May 7 as a result of Liberia’s apparent failure to sever ties with Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
Liberian Foreign Minister Monie R. Captan responded on July 26 to the sanction committee’s refusal to grant a travel ban waiver to Liberian officials requesting that they be allowed to attend a World Cup qualifying match in Sierra Leone earlier in July.