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Russia sanctioned 43 Canadian citizens on June 27, 2022, barring them from entering the country in a tit-for-tat response to Western sanctions on Moscow. [152] Moscow barred entry to 62 Canadian citizens in response to another expansion of anti-Russian sanctions by Ottawa, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in its statement on August 5, 2022.
The Canadian government announced in February 2009 that it was adding Afghanistan to its list of preferred countries to receive foreign aid. [111] Afghanistan has an embassy in Ottawa. Canada had an embassy in Kabul. See also: War in Afghanistan, Embassy of Canada in Kabul, List of ambassadors of Canada to Afghanistan Armenia: 1992
On 16 February 2015, the EU increased its sanction list to cover 151 individuals and 37 entities. [71] Australia indicated that it would follow the EU in new sanctions. On 18 February 2015, Canada added 37 Russian citizens and 17 Russian entities to its sanction list. Rosneft and the deputy minister of defence, Anatoly Antonov, were both ...
The action builds on earlier Canadian sanctions on Iran, most recently on Oct. 3, which Canada said it imposed over human rights violations, including the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old ...
Countries and territories on the list have imposed or joined sanctions against Russia. [10] Relations between Canada and Russia deteriorated rapidly after the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. In response to the annexation, Canada imposed sanctions on Russian officials. On March 3, 2014, the Canadian House of Commons passed a ...
In March 2022, in retaliation for sanctions imposed against Russia in response to their invasion of Ukraine, Russia added an additional 48 countries that had imposed sanctions against it to the unfriendly countries list. Creditors from countries on the list who sought to receive payments on debt were required to open a special bank account at a ...
The Special Economic Measures Act (S.C. 1992, c. 17) is a statute of the Parliament of Canada, [2] passed in 1992 under the second Mulroney ministry in the 34th Canadian Parliament. The Government of Canada department responsible for enforcing the Act is the Minister of Foreign Affairs .
Canadians were banned from transactions with the individuals, whose Canadian assets were frozen. [183] The Canadian government held that Maduro played a "key role in [Venezuela's] political and economic crisis"; its sanctions targeted his cabinet, military officials, and the Supreme Tribunal of Justice and Electoral Council. [184]