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Georgia (by Russia), agricultural products, wine, mineral water, enacted 2006


2006 Russian ban of Moldovan and Georgian wines

EU's external relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner stated that the EU was worried about what she called an "embargo" against Moldova, but the EU couldn't take any measures since Russia was not a member of the World Trade Organization.

2007 Arab League Summit

Moreover, on the eve of the Riyadh summit, American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice persuaded Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Abbas to agree to meet on a regular basis, but Israel maintained its economic embargo on the Palestinian government and its military pressure in the territory of the Palestinian Authority.

Alexander Wolcott

Nominated by President James Madison to the late William Cushing's seat in February 1811, he was unpopular because, while a United States customs inspector, he had robustly enforced the Embargo and Non-Intercourse Acts.

Directo Gira 2005 La Coruña

The tracklist is a selection of her greatest hits, but only from her albums "Mujer", "Desconocida", "Soy Yo", "Lo Mejor de Marta Sánchez", plus her duet with Andrea Bocelli "Vivo Por Ella", the much praised track "Y Sin Embargo Te Quiero" and three tracks from her Olé Olé days: "Con Solo Una Mirada", "Lili Marlen" and "Soldados del Amor".

Fabio Calzavara

In December 2000, he participated in the first public humanitarian aid to Iraq under the embargo, organized by Abbe Pierre and Jean-Marie Benjamin on a special flight from Paris to Baghdad, with 180 participants as parliamentarians, diplomats, journalists, religious workers, and ONG volunteers from France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.

Foreign aid to Haiti

Throughout the 2001–2004 time period the United States Chamber of Commerce backed a government aid embargo upon Haiti's elected Aristide government.

France–Israel relations

After the Six-Day War in June 1967, Charles de Gaulle's government imposed an arms embargo on the region, mostly affecting Israel.

George Davenport

In the fall of 1803, shortly after arriving with a cargo from Liverpool, Davenport was arrested with the rest of his crew while in port at St. Petersburg when the Czarist Russian government acceded to Napoleon's embargo on British vessels (the "Continental System").

HAL/Turbomeca Shakti

However, several factors including the US embargo following India's 1998 nuclear tests forced the project to run behind schedule.

History of Havana

After the revolution of 1959, the new regime promised to improve social services, public housing, and official buildings; nevertheless, shortages that affected Cuba after Castro's abrupt expropriation of all private property and industry under a strong communist model backed by the Soviet Union followed by the U.S. embargo, hit Havana especially hard.

Juan Negrín

Negrín relied on the Communists to curtail the Anarchist wing of the Spanish Left, and was forced to rely on the Soviet Union, then led by Joseph Stalin, for weapons and armament, because of the arms embargo imposed by the Non-Intervention Committee.

Louisiana in the American Civil War

The strategies advanced to defend Louisiana and the other gulf states of the Confederacy were first, the idea of King Cotton, that an unofficial embargo of cotton to Europe would force England to use their navy to intervene in protecting the new Confederacy.

Military history of the Republic of Turkey

The Turkish Navy participated with five ships and one submarine in the NATO-led naval blockade to enforce the arms embargo.

Mokopa

Full scale development of the Mokopa began in November 1996, due to the ongoing United States arms embargo against South Africa making acquisition of the AGM-114 Hellfire impossible.

Nebojša Čović

At the moment Čović came on board to lead the federation, FR Yugoslavia national team led by Duda Ivković were the reigning European champions, having returned to international competition following a four-year exile due to the UN embargo.

Stations of the Tide

Stations of the Tide is the story of a bureaucrat with the Department of Technology Transfer who must descend to the surface of Miranda to hunt a magician who has smuggled proscribed technology past the orbital embargo, and bring him to justice before the world is transformed by the flood of the Jubilee Tides.

Templars Square

By 1959, the proposal had received strong endorsement from Oxford City Council, and an embargo on new shopping developments along the nearby Cowley Road was enforced.

The Cold Still

The Cold Still was produced and mixed by Ethan Johns, engineered by Dom Monks, and managed by Embargo Management.

Turkish Canadian

Since the division of the island, the Turkish Cypriot economy has remained stagnant and undeveloped because of the economic embargoes which have been imposed on the north.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 751

A Panel of Experts to investigate the lack of success of the arms embargo was set up in 2002.

In 2008, the embargo was in relation to nations and the International Maritime Organisation providing technical assistance to Somalia upon their request to enhance the capacity to ensure coastal and maritime security, including combating piracy off the Somali coast.


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