Letter Dated 25 January 2021 From The President Of The Security Council Addressed To The Secretary-General And The Permanent Representatives Of The Members Of The Security Council≪

S/2021/76

Given that serious threat to the civilian population and democratic institutions,
we must note that my country, the Central African Republic, is deprived of the means
to exercise its inherent right of individual or collective self-defence, as recognized
by the Charter of the United Nations and its duty as recalled in all resolutions on the
Central African Republic, in their fifth preambular paragraphs,

“that the [Central African Republic] authorities have the primary responsibility
to protect all populations in the [Central African Republic] in particular from
genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, and
recalling in this regard the importance of restoring state authority in all parts
of the country”.

With regard those paragraphs of such resolutions, to mention only that one,
which is binding, we must emphasize that the serious military-political crisis
unleashed in December 2012 by the Séléka rebel coalition, which led to the change
of a democratic regime by force, led the United Nations, and more specifically
the Security Council, to decide, through the powers at its disposal, to impose an
arms embargo on the Central African Republic. The intended and stated objective
was to prevent the rival armed groups, which have protected entire regions of the
country, and the national armed forces disorganized by the crisis from gaining
access to weapons of war that could perpetuate the crisis and lead to a civil war with
incalculable consequences.

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