News Release
Financial Sanctions: Afghanistan (Taliban and Usama Bin Laden)

16 January 2002

Following a decision of the United Nations Security Council, the following entities have been removed from the consolidated list of entities/individuals associated with the above sanctions.

Following a decision of the United Nations Security Council, the following entities have been removed from the consolidated list of entities/individuals associated with the above sanctions.

The entities concerned are:

Da Afghanistan Bank

Ariana Afghan Airlines

Note to Editors

Da Afghanistan Bank and Ariana Afghan Airlines were initially included in Annex 1 to the Bank of England's Notice dated 3 May 2000 - Afghanistan (Taliban).