The resolution reiterated that the obligations of all states to implement Security Council decisions relating to arms embargoes and were encouraged to make violations of the embargoes a criminal offence.[3] It encouraged the improved monitoring of arms embargoes through regional exchanges of information, such as through the OAU, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). All states were to report on violations of the arms embargoes.