The UN Security Council today renewed arms, financial and travel sanctions on the Ivory Coast for six months. The country is also banned on trade in rough diamonds from the West African country. The council also pledged in a resolution adopted unanimously by all 15 members to review the sanctions within three months as soon as the world's top cocoa producer holds 'open, free, fair and transparent presidential elections.A failed 2002 rebellion against President Laurent Gbagbo split the country into a rebel north and Government-run south, triggering a crisis that scared investment from what was once the region's star economy.Elections on October 31 are meant to resolve the crisis and re-unify the country.The UN arms embargo was imposed in 2004 over violations of a 2003 cease-fire between the government and the rebels. A UN report this week said both sides have continued re-arming despite hopes that the election will reunite the country.