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In response to mounting international pressure on Israel's actions in Gaza, more than 200 delegates from 12 countries have called for an arms embargo on Israel. In their letter, the politicians stated that "an arms embargo has moved beyond a moral necessity to become a legal requirement". [7] "Providing arms to Israel despite the mounting ...
US President Jimmy Carter imposed an arms embargo on the military government of Argentina in 1977 in response to human rights abuses. [2]An arms embargo was put in place, along with other economic sanctions by the European Economic Community (EEC), within a week of the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic. [3]
After the failure of the Embargo Act of 1807, the federal government of the United States took little interest in imposing embargoes and economic sanctions against foreign countries until the 20th century. United States trade policy was entirely a matter of economic policy. After World War I, interest revived.
A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite ...
The divided U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan despite appeals from the world’s newest nation, the African Union and half a dozen countries including ...
List of sanctioned countries (the below is not an exhaustive list): [87] Afghanistan sanctions by the US [88] China by the EU and the US. Sanctions made on arms embargo, enacted in response to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 [89] European Union arms embargo on the People's Republic of China; Hong Kong, enacted in response to the National ...
United Nations arms embargo on Somalia; United Nations Security Council Resolution 418; United States embargo against Cuba; United States embargo against Nicaragua; United States sanctions; United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union
PARIS/JERSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit out at France's President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday for saying that shipments of arms to Israel used in the conflict in ...