Making Targeted Sanctions Effective - Small Arms Survey

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PART II: MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN THE ROLE OF THE UN | 23
were deemed insufficient to ensure continuous, rigorous, and coordinated
sanctions monitoring at the critical local and regional
levels. Further consideration should be given to adapting and extending
to targeted sanctions regimes the model of the European
Union Sanctions Assistance Missions (SAMs) used in the case of Yugoslavia
and the proposed regional monitoring network that was
proposed, but never implemented, by the (now superceded) sanctions
against the territory of Afghanistan formerly controlled by the
Taliban.
It was also observed that the potential of more systematically drawing
on the existing capacities of various UN field missions (political,
humanitarian, observer, and peacekeeping) has not been fully
explored, even though there appear to be potential synergies. For
example, observer and disarmament missions in sanctions-affected
areas often have immediate knowledge of arms flows, but this
knowledge is not routinely fed into the main sanctions monitoring
process. While the Security Council and Secretariat should be encouraged
to undertake a systematic assessment of this mechanism
for improved implementation on the ground, they should remain
cognizant of the potential trade-offs involved. Any measure to give
UN field missions a greater role in the provision of information for
sanctions-monitoring purposes must also safeguard against the possibility
that this role may compromise the integrity, neutrality and
efficacy of these missions in fulfilling their primary mandates.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
From this analysis of how the sanctions regimes can be enhanced in
the work of the Security Council and its Sanctions Committees, the
following concrete recommendations can be suggested.