UN approves Somalia sanctions plan

The UN Security Council unanimously agreed to impose new sanctions aimed at reducing the arms flowing into Somalia and the lawlessness and piracy that have flourished there.

The 15-nation council, the UN's most powerful body, endorsed a British plan for a council panel to recommend people and entities whose financial assets would be frozen.

"It provides a framework for implementing sanctions against individuals in Somalia. And now it's up to the sanctions committee to come up with a list of individuals and entities who will be subject to those sanctions," British Ambassador John Sawers emphasised.

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