United Nations Security Council Resolution 1975

Resolution 1975 of the UN Security Council is a resolution that was decided by the United Nations Security Council on 30 March 2011 unanimously. It deals with the situation in the government crisis in Ivory Coast 2010/2011.

Content

Specifically, the decision was directed against the Ivorian ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, his wife Simone, the Secretary of the Presidency Désiré Tagro, the Chairman of the Ivorian Popular Front, Pascal Affi N'Guessan, as well as against the narrow Gbagbo adviser Alcide Djédjé. They were subject to travel bans and assets should be blocked. It was agreed that these sanctions can only be averted by the immediate resignation of Laurent Gbagbo. In addition, the UN troops were promised the full support of the Security Council in Ivory Coast ( UNOCI ) and called for an end to violence against civilians. In addition, formulated the resolution 1975, the mandate of UNOCI, at the request of the French government, more robust. Thus, in the previous resolutions used formulation for protection of the civilian population were " all necessary means " allowed by the explicit mention of that in the application of heavy weapons against the civilian population, the UNOCI was authorized to intervene replaced.

Under resolution 1975 also explicitly prohibited was the use of heavy weapons in the urban area.

The resolution was introduced in 1975 by Nigeria and France.

Motivation

The French government declared that the formulated in Resolution 1975 was adopted more "robust " mandate of UNOCI for several reasons: So should not the suspicion arise, Ivory Coast would not be granted the same protection as Libya in Resolution 1973 the civil war in Libya. In addition, the credibility of the UNOCI should be strengthened, and ultimately, and most important, it has been aggravated by a development such as to prevent the genocide in Rwanda.