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The Taiwan Affairs Office announced its first sanction under the new law in November 2021, and the Ministry of Commerce announced its first Unreliable Entity List designation in February 2023. As of August 2024, over 100 individuals and entities have been sanctioned by China.
20 November 2024: S/2024/835: S/PV.9790: The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question (Israel–Hamas war) United States: 18 November 2024: S/2024/826: S/PV.9786: Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan Russia: 24 April 2024: S/2024/302: S/PV.9616: Non-proliferation (see also: Outer Space Treaty ...
For the first 45 years of the United Nations' history, sanctions were only imposed twice: once against Rhodesia in 1966 and then against South Africa in 1977. [6] [7] From 1991, there was a sharp increase in their usage. [8] The UN voted for sanctions twelve times in the 1990s alone. [9]
[28] [29] [30] The sanction is based on the Hong Kong Autonomy Act and Lam would be listed in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List. On December 7, 2020, pursuant to the order, the U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on 14 Vice Chairpersons of the National People's Congress of China, for "undermining Hong ...
The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on over 300 entities and individuals aimed at cutting off Russia's access to products and services needed to sustain military ...
U.S. sanctions have “become something of a default response in the absence of the hard work of creative and engaged diplomacy,” said Fauriol. “U.S. policy toward Haiti over the past 18-plus ...
The United Nations issues sanctions by consent of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and/or General Assembly in response to major international events, receiving authority to do so under Article 41 of Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. [68] The nature of these sanctions may vary, and include financial, trade, or weaponry ...
In 2020 the United States announced plans to revoke the resolution and demand re-imposition of U.N. sanctions on Iran under Paragraph 11 of the JCPOA. [11] The United States could not trigger Paragraph 11 in 2020 because the United States withdrew itself from JCPOA in 2018 and unilaterally re-imposed sanctions on Iran while Iran was in full ...