MICHELLE NICHOLS  THE United Nations Security Council has extended a Central African Republic (CAR) arms embargo and targeted sanctions regime for another year, however, China abstained in the vote because it believes the measures should be removed. The 15-member Security Council imposed the arms embargo on CAR in December 2013 when mainly Muslim Selaka rebels ousted then-president Francois Bozize, prompting reprisals from mostly Christian militias. A targeted sanctions regime was agreed upon in 2014 when U.N. peacekeepers were also deployed to the country. The gold and diamond-rich country of 4.7 million people have since been mired in violence. "There appears…