The United Nations (January 2002) and the European Union (May 2002) agreed to prohibit the export of arms and all types of related equipment to Osama Bin Laden, members of Al-Qaida and Talibans and likewise other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them; as well as, to freeze without delay the funds and other financial assets or economic resources, to prevent the entry into transit through their territories and to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfers of arms and related materiel of all types (Resolution 1617/2005).

The embargoes reflected in this table exclude prohibitions on the export of non-lethal equipment for humanitarian purposes or for certain International Organisations and United Nations personnel as well as those used for demining actions except in the case of China. In the case of the embargoes on Iraq, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, the prohibition of arms shipments to their governments is excluded.

• The region of  Nagorno-Karabakh is subject to an OSCE embargo.
  (v) Voluntary embargo.
  (Mod) Date of modification.