Former Yugoslavia.

The Security Council on 31 March, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, decided that "all States shall, for the purposes of fostering peace and stability in Kosovo, prevent the sale or supply to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including Kosovo, by their nationals or from their territories or using their flag vessels and aircraft, of arms and related materiel of all types, such as weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and equipment and spare parts for the aforementioned, and shall prevent arming and training for terrorist activities there".

In adopting resolution 1160 (1998) by 14 votes to none, with 1 abstention (China), the Council also called upon the authorities in Belgrade and the leaders of the Kosovar Albanian community urgently to enter without preconditions into a meaningful dialogue on political status issues. It urged the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to begin gathering information relating to the violence in Kosovo that might fall within its jurisdiction.

The Council established a committee, consisting of all Council members, to carry out various functions relating to the arms embargo, namely: seek information from all States regarding their actions to implement the ban and to examine those reports; consider information brought to it by any State concerning violations of the ban and recommend appropriate measures in response; report periodically to the Council on such alleged violations; and promulgate guidelines as may be necessary to facilitate the implementation of the ban.

In calling upon the Kosovar Albanian leadership to condemn all terrorist action and emphasizing that all elements of the community should pursue the goals by peaceful means only, the Council expressed its support for an "enhanced status for Kosovo", which would include a "substantially greater degree of autonomy and meaningful self-administration".

It also decided to reconsider the prohibitions imposed by the resolution, including action to terminate them, following receipt of the Secretary-General's assessment that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) had taken the following measures: begun a substantive dialogue with the leadership of the Kosovar Albanian community, without preconditions on political status issues; withdrawn the special police units and ceased action by the security forces affecting the civilian population; allowed access to Kosovo by humanitarian organizations; accepted a mission by the Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; and facilitated a mission to Kosovo by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.The Council also affirmed that concrete progress to resolve the serious political and human rights issues in Kosovo would improve FRY's international position and prospects for normalization of its international relationships and full participation in international institutions.