Sentences with phrase «for arms embargo»
«Rifkind calls for arms embargo to be lifted for Syrian rebels Main Hunt puts in strong performance, as Government wins vote of confidence.
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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.
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.
«We join others in asking for a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, Hamas and armed Palestinian groups.
Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra Leone's civil war.
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.
China, meanwhile, is pressing for looser visa restrictions, fairer treatment over EU trade defence measures and an end to the post-Tiananmen arms embargo.
«Our leaders are calling for sanctions and an arms embargo on Russian but we are continuing to arm Israel.
Amnesty International, six Nobel Peace Prize laureates and over 90 celebrities have called for an immediate arms embargo on the country.
Armenia hosts one of Russia's biggest foreign military bases, offsetting a longstanding OSCE arms embargo against it, yet during President Sargsyan's first term he also strengthened his country's ties with NATO and for the most part upheld international sanctions against neighboring Iran, despite the extensive opportunity costs to the Armenian economy.
The US supplied arms to the Israelis and Arab nations responded with the OAPEC coordinated oil embargo against the West (Merrill 2007), resulting in long queues for petrol, fuel rationing and the exhaustion of national reserves.
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.
Most prominent among these are the «targeted sanctions» imposed by Security Council Resolutions (SCR) 1267 (1999) seq, which provide for asset freezes, travel bans and arms embargoes against persons listed by the Committee established pursuant to SCR 1267 (the 1267 Committee).
Intel said its embargo, which limited knowledge of the flaws to Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Arm, was in line with industry standards for vulnerability disclosure and incident response.