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Now we see – though the lifting of the Union’s arms
embargo
may now be delayed thanks to US pressure and Chinese aggressiveness – that the European Union has become merely a tool for corruption when France and China draw up joint action plans.
French diplomats have of course informed China about the reluctance of other European countries about lifting the arms embargo, which was imposed after the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
If and when the Union lifts the embargo, Europe will be refusing to take responsibility for the catastrophe that may be approaching.
Persson had discovered that he lacked a majority in the Swedish parliament to lift the arms
embargo
on China.
Cuba cannot remain isolated, dependent on Venezuelan petrodollars and penalized by America’s ill-conceived trade
embargo.
The internal fighting in Palestine began in part as a result of the political impasse caused after Israel and the international community imposed an economic
embargo
on the Palestinian Authority.
China could stop purchasing US aircraft, impose an
embargo
on US soybean products, and dump US Treasury securities and other financial assets.
Obama’s impending Cuba visit should be welcomed as a sign of the end of America’s inapt policy of isolation – a development that could open the way to lifting the 55-year-old trade
embargo
against the country.
When Japan responded by taking over southern French Indochina, the US retaliated by imposing an
embargo
on oil exports to Japan.
He failed, because he gave in to petty protectionist interests, imposing a timber
embargo
against Finland and Sweden, a fish
embargo
against Norway, and various agricultural embargos against Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and others.
Both men entered national leadership under President Gerald Ford in 1974, during the Arab oil embargo, which unleashed huge economic shocks that doomed Ford's presidency.
The 1970s
embargo
was evidently a defining moment in the strategic thinking of Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld.
But the first fell prey to a long US occupation, and the second currently faces a US-led oil-export
embargo
designed to throttle it financially.
India should seek to play the role of honest broker to defuse the threat of military hostilities, which would most likely shut down the world’s most important oil-export route, the Strait of Hormuz (a danger that Iran has said is also implicit in an oil-export
embargo
against it).
During his October trip to Europe, Moon lobbied hard for the easing of sanctions, reflecting his government’s desire to engage, not embargo, the North.
Regular bus lines have been opened, and, according to a high-ranking Turkish bank official, “We were hesitating about opening a branch in Syria because of the US embargo, so the sending of an envoy is like a green light to us.”
Putin’s show of strength involved military force and the implicit threat of a gas embargo, not monetary power (which he does not have).
For example, in response to an
embargo
affecting a particular country, other EU members would draw on their reserves, increase their own production, pay more for imports, or cut consumption a bit.
In the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and the subsequent US drilling embargo, the approval of Shell’s drilling operations off the Alaskan coast received considerable media attention.
Moreover, the UN Security Council should impose an arms
embargo
against Burma, as it has in other countries similarly afflicted by conflict and serious human rights abuses.
In 1990, when Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi forces to occupy Kuwait, claiming that he was retaking lost territory, the UN Security Council voted, based on chapter seven of the UN charter, to punish Iraq by imposing a strict financial and trade
embargo.
But the truth is that the 1973 Arab oil
embargo
was a colossal failure.
A massive use of the oil weapon along the lines of the 1973 oil
embargo
is out of the question nowadays.
Saudi Arabia saw its share of world oil exports drop sharply in the 12 years after the 1973-1974
embargo.
For starters, this is not the end of the American trade embargo, which can be lifted only by the US Congress.
In their book, Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana, William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh describe how Cuba has consistently refused to offer political concessions in exchange for the end of the
embargo
or diplomatic normalization.
The idea to model the “call on OPEC” gained ground after the October oil
embargo
of 1973, a time when few economists were familiar with the oil market.
In light of the escalating violent repression of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change – and of those whose support apparently helped the MDC to prevail in the presidential election, the results of which have still not been announced after four weeks – an international arms
embargo
on Zimbabwe is urgently needed.
Local government-employed academics I talked to bemoaned the lack of Internet access, which they attributed to the United States’ embargo, technical problems, or complications with the local infrastructure.
For example, on Iran (with exceptions like Greece), Europeans have united around a clear policy and collective positions, such as an oil
embargo.
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