An arms expert said Monday he believed the ship was carrying weapons to Somalia, in contravention of a U.N.arms embargo.

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Brussels had indicated that it would lift the embargo if Turkish Cypriots voted in favor of a U.N.-sponsored unification plan.

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But Andrew Mwangura of the piracy specialist group East African Seafarers' Assistance Program says he believes the ship is one of the regular weapons carriers circumventing the U.N.arms embargo on Somalia.

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In 1995, the Senate voted 69-to-29 to unilaterally lift the U.N. embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia.

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The Germans are caught contemptuously disregarding collective Western security interests to sell chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and ballistic missile-related technologies to Iraq before and after the imposition of the U.N. embargo.

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There are reports that the Soviet Union has continued, also in violation of the U.N. embargo, to provide Iraq both directly and indirectly with military equipment and spare parts needed to maintain its war machine.

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