Sentences with phrase «sanctions on allies»

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

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NEW DELHI, April 24 - U.S. sanctions on Russian military exports have put the brakes on a $ 6 billion deal with India and may derail the arms purchases of other U.S. allies around Asia, experts say.

The former CIA director was speaking on a flying visit to the region, where he had earlier in the day met with Saudi King Salman in Riyadh and stressed the need for unity among Gulf allies as Washington aims to muster support for new sanctions against Iran to curb its missile program.

South Korea also declared it was imposing a new round of economic sanctions on North Korea, whose sole major ally is China.

Early this month, Washington imposed new sanctions on 24 Russians, striking at allies of President Vladimir...

Trump's about - face on the latest sanctions push came after he blew up at advisers upon finding out that the US had expelled far more Russian diplomats than its European allies in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy (an attack the West has blamed on Russian operatives) in the UK last month.

Russia cut its military spending in 2017, a Kremlin spokesman acknowledged, just as the United States and its European allies have imposed steep sanctions on the former Cold War rival's economy.

But with the help of international allies, and diplomacy, he said the U.S. could use current sanctions as leverage, offering some relief in exchange for controls on the nuclear program — as occurred in the controversial Iran deal.

The U.S. and its allies maintain separate sanctions on Iran for those problems.

Iraq was cited for occupying Kuwait, but the emphasis was on the allied military response in January, and on the premise that sanctions would have dealt effectively with Iraq.

The U.S. must more robustly lead a coalition that includes our natural allies on these issues, including Latin American and sub-Saharan African nations, in identifying and sanctioning gross religious liberty abusers worldwide.

According to Senate staffers working for the Senate bill, Nickles believed that the Wolf - Specter bill's provisions for automatic sanctions against the worst persecuting countries would lead to fruitless confrontations, negative fallout on indigenous Christians and missionaries, and an America isolated from its allies.

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt imposed sanctions on June 5 and accused Qatar of financing extremist groups and allying with Iran, the Gulf Arab states» arch-foe, something it denies.

The U.S. and its NATO allies responded by slapping sanctions on Russia.

Last July, US imposed new sanctions on Iran over missile tests and invited European allies to halt their financial dealings with the country.

However, the only instances in which this has been employed on a large scale were by Nazi Germany during the latter stages of World War II, when they were surrounded by Allied forces, and by Apartheid South Africa, when they were subject to international economic sanctions.