from ExportLawBlog.com

The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (”DDTC”) announced today that it was amending section 126.1 of the ITAR to reflect a partial lifting of the arms embargo against Somalia. These amendments are being adopted to implement revisions made to the Somalia arms embargo by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1744 adopted on February 21, 2007. Thee three month delay in announcing the amendments, which have not yet even been published in the Federal Register, indicates that revising the arms embargo on Somalia was not exactly put on the front burner at DDTC.

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Posted on May 16th, 2007 by keeton
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