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The arms embargoes

Organisations

Organisations which have implemented arms embargoes since 2000 are : the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), The Economic Community of African States (ECOWAS), The African Union (AU) and the League of Arab States (LAS).

Information

The information of this database is regularly updated, checked and supplemented.

Database

This database aims to give an updated snapshot of the arms embargoes’ regimes.

Last update:

Key figures on arms embargoes :

Number of States or territories under embargo

22

Number of non state entities under embargo

4

Number of multilateral organizations implementing embargoes

6

Ongoing embargo

Haiti

Status of the embargo Ongoing Entity State Organisation(s) imposing embargo(es) UN Restriction(…

Zimbabwe

Status of the embargo Ongoing Entity State Organisation(s) imposing embargo(es) EU Restriction(s) Co…

Yemen

Status of the embargo Ongoing Entity Non-States Actors Organisation(s) imposing embargo(es) UN &…

Venezuela

Status of the embargo Ongoing Entity State Organisation(s) imposing embargo(es) EU Restriction(s) Co…

Syria

Status of the embargo Ongoing Entity State Organisation(s) imposing embargo(es) UN & EU & LE…

Lifted embargo

Ukraine

Status of the embargo Lifted Entité State Organisation(s) EU Exceptions No Ukraine is no longer unde…

Togo

Status of the embargo Lifted Entité State Organisation(s) AU & ECOWAS Exceptions No Togo is no l…

Sierra Leone

Status of the embargo Lifted Entité State Organisation(s) UN & EU Exceptions Yes, no prior notif…

Rwanda

Status of the embargo Lifted Entité State Organisation(s) UN Exceptions Yes, no prior notification o…

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Status of the embargo Lifted Entité State Organisation(s) UN & EU Exceptions No Between July 199…

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