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		</div><p>The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to lift the last remaining sanctions on Liberia in a sign of support for the government&#8217;s progress towards peace after two civil wars.</p>
<p>The resolution adopted by the UN&#8217;s most powerful body terminated an arms embargo on armed groups and dissolved the council committee and its panel of experts that monitored Liberian sanctions.</p>
<p>Liberia was battered by civil wars that left 200,000 people dead, and displaced half of the country&#8217;s three million people.</p>
<p>The Security Council imposed arms and diamond embargoes on Liberia in 2001 to stop government revenues from those industries from being used to fuel the war. In 2003 it added a ban on a major export, timber. The timber sanctions were lifted in 2006 and the diamond sanctions in 2007.</p>
<p>UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the termination of the targeted sanctions, saying it &#8220;further signals the significant progress made by Liberia and the sub-region in maintaining stability,&#8221; his spokesman said.</p>
<p>US deputy ambassador David Pressman said it was a day to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; Liberia&#8217;s transition toward peace and security, and the council&#8217;s role in helping to restore stability more than 12 years after the end of the country&#8217;s &#8220;brutal civil war&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Security Council, the secretary-general and the US envoy stressed that Liberia&#8217;s work to improve its security is not finished.</p>
<p>The council encouraged Liberia to adopt laws to control its arms and ammunition, and take other measures to combat illicit weapons trafficking.</p>
<p>The final report of the panel of experts monitoring sanctions expressed concern about the vulnerability of west Africa, particularly Liberia, following &#8220;terrorist attacks&#8221; in neighbouring Ivory Coast as well as Mali and Chad, claimed by an al-Qaida affiliate.</p>
<p>&#8220;The border between Liberia and Ivory Coast is porous and continues to experience the activities of militants,&#8221; the panel said.</p>
<p>It expressed concern that all Liberian borders remain vulnerable.</p>
<p>Despite recent deployments of government security personnel along the country&#8217;s borders, the experts said &#8220;the security apparatus remains weak, undermined by operational difficulties, budgetary constraints and lack of adequate equipment&#8221;.</p>
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