UNITED NATIONS, New York – The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to lift a three- year-old Yugoslavia, ending the last in a arms embargo on series of military and economic sanctions imposed on Belgrade during the past decade.  

The action Monday indicated the UN’s formal recognition that Yugoslavia has embraced democratic rule and has cooperated with the West by surrendering its former president, Slobodan Milosevic, to a UN war crimes tribunal.  

The decision will permit the Yugoslav armed forces, which have been helping NATO to patrol a buffer between Kosovo province and Serbia, the larger of the two Yugoslav republics, to obtain military equipment. (Reuters)  

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