Business & trade

Rwanda

Updated:  11/01/08

SOURCE

UN

INSTRUMENT

SCR 1749 (28/3/07)

MEASURES

Terminates with immediate effect the measures imposed by paragraph 11 of UN Security Council Resolution 1011 (1995), which requires the Government of Rwanda to notify the Committee of all imports made by it of arms and related matériel, and all States to notify the Committee of all exports from their territories of arms or related matériel to Rwanda.

SOURCE

UN

INSTRUMENT

SCR 918 (17/5/94)

MEASURES

  • Arms embargo with exception for UN peacekeeping forces
  • Establishes the UN Rwanda (918) Sanctions Committee

UK LEGISLATION

  • The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Liberia, Somalia, and the Former Yugoslavia) Order 1993 (SI 1993/1787) as amended by The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Amendment) (Rwanda) Order 1994 (SI 1994/1637)
  • The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Former Yugoslavia) Order 1996 (SI 1996/1629)
  • The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Rwanda) (Amendment) Order 1997 (SI 1997/273)
  • The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Amendment) (Sierra Leone) Order 1998 (SI 1998/1501).

COMMENTS

SCR 1005 (17/7/95), notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by SCR 918, approved the supply of appropriate amounts of explosives intended exclusively for use in established humanitarian demining programmes, upon application to and authorisation by the Committee established by Resolution 918.

SOURCE

UN

INSTRUMENT

SCR 997 (9/6/95)

MEASURES

  • Affirmation that Rwanda arms embargo applies to the sale or supply to neighbouring states if the arms and related material are for use in Rwanda.

UK LEGISLATION

  • The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Dependent Territories) Order 1995 (SI 1995/1032) as amended by The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Dependent Territories) (Amendment) Order 1997 (SI 1997/272) and
  • The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Dependent Territories) (Amendment) (Sierra Leone) Order 1998 (SI 1998/1502).

COMMENTS

States neighbouring Rwanda are Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).

SOURCE

UN

INSTRUMENT

SCR 1011 (16/8/95)

MEASURES

  • Arms embargo lifted in respect of sale or supply to Government of Rwanda (through named entry points until 1 September 1996 and thereafter with no restrictions).
  • Restrictions on onward transfer of arms and related material sold or supplied to the Government of Rwanda.

UK LEGISLATION

  • The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Somalia, Liberia and Rwanda) (Isle of Man) Order 1996 (SI 1996/3153) as amended by The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Somalia, Liberia and Rwanda) (Isle of Man) (Amendment) Order 1997 (SI 1997/280) and The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (Sierra Leone) Order 1998 (SI 1998/1508)
  • The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Somalia, Liberia and Rwanda) (Channel Islands) Order 1996 (SI 1996/3154) as amended by The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Somalia, Liberia and Rwanda) (Channel Islands) (Amendment) Order 1997 (SI 1997/279) and The United Nations Arms Embargoes (Channel Islands) (Amendment) (Sierra Leone) Order 1998 (SI 1998/1507)
  • The United Nations (Sanctions) (Amendment) Order 2000 (SI 2000/1106)

COMMENTS

Nominated entry points for sales until 1 September 1996:

  • Airport of Kanombe, Kigali, Rwanda
  • Rusumo, Rwanda, through the port of Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania
  • Gatuna, Rwanda through the port of Mombassa, Kenya
RESTRICTIONS ON THE EXPORT OF STRATEGIC GOODS

POLICY RESTRICTIONS
The Government will not grant export licences for new military or dual use equipment for those countries intervening in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Angola, Burundi, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe) where there is a clear risk that it would be used in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Applications for Standard Individual Export Licences to provide spares for UK equipment already supplied under pre-existing contracts will be examined on a case by case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria. In reaching decisions on such applications the Government will take into account the wider implications of forcing UK companies to break existing obligations.

WITH EFFECT FROM
09/02/2000

SOURCE
Ministerial Statement

REFERENCE
HC 184 & 185