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According to Security Council resolution
1181 (1998) of 13 July 1998,
UNOMSIL's military element was to:
- Monitor the military and security situation in the country as a whole,
as security conditions permit, and to provide the Special Representative
of the Secretary-General with regular information thereon in particular
with a view to determining when conditions were sufficiently secure
to allow subsequent deployments of military observers beyond the first
phase;
- Monitor the disarmament and demobilization of former combatants concentrated
in secure areas of the country, including monitoring of the role of
the Military Observer Group (ECOMOG) of the Economic Community of West
African States (ECOWAS) in the provision of security and in the collection
and destruction of arms in those secure areas;
- Assist in monitoring respect for international humanitarian law, including
at disarmament and demobilization sites, where security conditions permit;
- Monitor the voluntary disarmament and demobilization of members of
the Civil Defence Forces (CDF), as security conditions permit.
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UNOUNOMSIL's civilian element was to:
- Advise, in coordination with other international efforts, the Government of Sierra Leone and local police officials on police practice, training, re-equipment and recruitment, in particular on the need to respect internationally accepted standards of policing in democratic societies, to advise on the planning of the reform and restructuring of the Sierra Leone police force, and to monitor progress in that regard;
- Report on violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in Sierra Leone, and, in consultation with the relevant United Nations agencies, to assist the Government of Sierra Leone in its efforts to address the country's human rights needs.
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