Sentences with phrase «arms embargo on»

The United Nations Group of Experts is mandated by the Security Council to monitor the UN arms embargo on DRC.

Amnesty International, six Nobel Peace Prize laureates and over 90 celebrities have called for an immediate arms embargo on the country.

«Our leaders are calling for sanctions and an arms embargo on Russian but we are continuing to arm Israel.

The Security Council should indeed ensure that further measures are now taken, including targeted sanctions and a full arms embargo on the Syrian government and on any armed groups suspected of human rights abuses.

«We join others in asking for a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, Hamas and armed Palestinian groups.

Quakers in Britain is calling for an immediate end to the violence and for the UK government to impose an arms embargo on all sides.

China is itself a sanctioned state in one respect: the US has had an arms embargo on the country stemming from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Arming Syrian rebels with weapons from Croatia — which wasn't set to join the European Union until July 1, 2013 — allowed Britain, in coordination with the US and Saudi Arabia, to circumvent the EU arms embargo on Syria, the paper noted.

The initial draft text - to renew the annual mandate of a targeted sanctions regime related to Yemen - wanted to include a condemnation of Iran for violating an arms embargo on Houthi leaders and include a council commitment to take action over it.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Spurred to action by the downing of the Malaysian airliner, the European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions Tuesday against Russia, including an arms embargo and restrictions on state - owned banks.

At the Washington Energy Conference of 1974, convened in the wake of the first Arab oil embargo, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prevailed on Saudi Arabia to buy U.S. arms and Treasury bonds, and to invest its «petrodollar» profits back in Western banks.

Drawing on Isaiah's vision, we should pursue the following strategy: First, while patiently supporting the embargo against Iraq, we should begin placing our armed forces in the Middle East under the Military Staff Committee of the Security Council, as described in chapter VII of the UN Charter.

This territorial embargo is how all UN Security Council arms embargoes are interpreted, unless the resolution says otherwise and the embargo is specifically limited to particular groups (as happens on occasion, eg see SC Res 1807, para. 1 on Congo).

Even though this embargo lasted for just a few years (for economic reasons I assume) since Turkey spends a lot on arms.

Likewise though SC Res 733 (1992) imposed a general and complete embargo on all arms to Somalia it was implicitly modified by SC Res 794 (1992) which authorised the use of all necessary means to establish a secure environment for humanitarian relief since the embargo was not interpreted as applying to arms brought in by those implementing that mandate.

Speculation that he had stuffed the ballot box led the European Union to place an arms embargo and other economic sanctions on Zimbabwe.

The US (see here) seems to place much weight on the fact that the authorisation to take all necessary measures is made notwithstanding the arms embargo.

Mr Cameron is calling on all sanctions against the southeast Asian country - with the exception of the arms embargo - to be suspended immediately.

Johnson's intervention is arguably the most impactful since the EU embargo on arms supplies ended last month, but his concerns are broadly in line with a range of figures from across the political spectrum.

Hague refused say whether the moves would lead to efforts to arm the opposition, saying there was «no change in policy on EU arms embargo, but we rule nothing out».

The sanctions imposed on the group include a travel ban, arms embargo and the freezing of all international assets.

The US had placed an embargo on arms sale to Nigeria owing to allegations of gross human right abuses against the military.

On 24th April 2006, Dutch timber baron Gus Kouwenhoven will go on trial in The Hague on charges of committing war crimes against Liberians and violating a United Nations (UN) arms embargOn 24th April 2006, Dutch timber baron Gus Kouwenhoven will go on trial in The Hague on charges of committing war crimes against Liberians and violating a United Nations (UN) arms embargon trial in The Hague on charges of committing war crimes against Liberians and violating a United Nations (UN) arms embargon charges of committing war crimes against Liberians and violating a United Nations (UN) arms embargo.

In Europe, the Council of the European Union by its Decision of 28 February and Council Regulation (EU) 204/2011 made on 2 March 2011 imposed an arms embargo and targeted sanctions going further than UNSCR 1970/2011 by prohibiting trade with Libya in equipment which might be used for internal repression as well as a visa ban on a wider group of persons.