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Latest post: Tue 10 Sep 2024

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Sudan: Vote on a Draft Resolution Extending the Sanctions Regime

Tomorrow morning (11 September), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution renewing the 1591 Sudan sanctions regime—including targeted sanctions (assets freezes and travel bans) and an arms embargo—until 12 September 2025.

The short draft resolution in blue is a technical rollover extending for one year the Sudan sanctions measures, which were last renewed by resolution 2676 of 8 March 2023. (The term “technical rollover” is commonly used by diplomats to describe a concise resolution extending a peace operation’s mandate without altering its core mandate or tasks. It traditionally denotes an extension for a shorter period than is customary, but members increasingly use the term to describe routine mandate extensions where the content is barely changed.) The draft text in blue recalls the provisions of resolution 2725 of 8 March, which renewed the mandate of the Panel of Experts (POE) assisting the 1591 Sudan Sanctions Committee until 12 March 2025.

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