President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree entitled “On measures to implement Resolution No. 1970 of the U.N. Security Council, dated February 26, 2011,” which imposes a number of restrictions on Libya, the Kremlin press service reported on Thursday.

Specifically, “the export from the territory of the Russian Federation to Libya, as well as the sale, deliveries and the turning over to Libya outside the Russian Federation of all types of armaments and materials connected with them, including weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, military hardware, munitions and materials connected with them, as well as spare parts and units for all those products, shall be banned until further notice.”

Aside from it, “it shall be prohibited to provide services to Libya, connected with the training of the personnel, as well as the rendering of technical, financial and other assistance (including the providing of the hired personnel), which are connected with military activities, or with the providing, manufacturing, technical maintenance of use of the corresponding products.”

Under the decree,”all cargoes, bound for Libya or coming from Libya, shall be inspected on the territory of the Russian Federation, including sea ports and airports, if information has been received, that those cargoes include products, on which the ban has been imposed.”

Those measures “shall not be extended to the deliveries of non-lethal munitions, intended exclusively for use for humanitarian purposes or for protection, to the rendering of technical assistance or the training of the technical personnel, connected with those munitions, on condition that the Committee of the U.N. Security Council will give its permission to that.”

“The ban will not include either the individual protection equipment, specifically bullet-proof vests and helmets, which are taken temporarily to Libya by U.N. officials, representatives of the mass media and staff members of humanitarian organisations and the organisations handling development problems, as well as by the personnel involved, exclusively for personal use.

” The ban shall not be extended either “to the sale or deliveries of weapons and munitions connected with them, as well as to the rendering of assistance and the providing of the personnel on condition that the Committee will give its permission to it.”