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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Does the U.N. arms embargo restrict the United States from sending arms to the Libyan rebels in the east?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The enforcement of the arms embargo that the U.N. has mandated is being actively discussed.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing