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4 unusual facts about International sanctions


Consent procedure

Following the adoption of the Treaty of Amsterdam, sanctions imposed on an EU Member State for a serious and persistent breach of fundamental rights requires Parliament's assent under Article 7 of the EU Treaty.

Dejan Savić

Dejan Savić made his debut in a time of sanctions for the Yugoslav 1994.

International sanctions

Well known examples of economic sanctions include the United Nations sanctions against South Africa, United Nations sanctions against Zimbabwe, United Nations sanctions against Iraq (1990–2003) and the United States embargo against Cuba (1962–present).

Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law

The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear: How China, Russia and high oil prices threaten to erode U.S. foreign influence: Russia and China are once again reluctant to side with the United States and support another sanctions resolution against Iran and its nuclear enrichment and reprocessing activities.


NAL Saras

The project almost came to a halt when it was hit by US-imposed sanctions in 1998, after India's nuclear tests in Pokhran.

Patrick Haseldine

Haseldine labelled the four South Africans "terrorists", a term deriving from Michael Dukakis and from some anti-apartheid activists calling apartheid South Africa a "terrorist state" in order to trigger automatic sanctions.

Sukhoi

On August 4, 2006, the US State Department imposed sanctions on Sukhoi for allegedly supplying Iran in violation of the United States Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000.


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After the Yugoslav wars broke out, SFR Yugoslavia dissolved and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed, but was under international sanctions at the time.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103

Ali Aujali, who served as a Libyan diplomat both under Gaddafi and under the National Transitional Council, claims that Gaddafi ordered the flight to be shot down to demonstrate the negative effects of international sanctions imposed on Libya after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Shukri Ghanem

Libya had been diplomatically isolated and subject to international sanctions since the November 1991 indictment of two Libyans for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 (the Lockerbie bombing).