The UN Security Council has lifted a territorial arms embargo on the Central African Republic that was put in place in 2013 after civil war broke out, but which the country’s foreign minister said was now “unjust.”

The unanimously adopted resolution scrubbed the sanctions that were already watered-down last year when Security Council members agreed to exempt government forces from the embargo.

However, while lifting the territorial embargo, Tuesday’s move introduced a separate ban on sales to “armed groups” operating in the country until the end of July 2025 — a measure that was already effectively in place.

A civil war has plagued the former French colony since a Muslim-dominated armed coalition called the Selekaousted former president Francois Bozize in 2013