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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2093 on the Situation in Somalia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Roland Adjovi
Roland Adjovi*
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Member of the ILM Editorial Advisory Committee, Editorial Assistant to the African Yearbook of International Law, Professor at The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University
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Somalia, embroiled in civil war since the early 1990s, has been variously qualified as a failed state, a rogue state, or a collapsed state. Several peacekeeping operations by the United Nations (UN) have attempted to bring peace to the chaotic region. The latest UN Security Council Resolution pertaining to Somalia, Resolution 2093 (2013), partially lifts the twenty-one-year-old arms embargo imposed on Somalia, in an acknowledgement of the progress made by the current government towards stability.

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International Legal Materials , Volume 52 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 1185 - 1195
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2013

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* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the United Nations Web site (visited November 11, 2013), http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/2093(2013).

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26 Id. ¶ 1.

27 Id. ¶ 33.

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