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But if oil starts to flow, Argentina might seek regional support for an economic blockade.
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Israel imposed an economic blockade of Gaza when the militant group Hamas took charge in 2007.
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It wanted to use the summit proposed by the Palestinians to persuade the Arabs to freeze any ties they had with Israel and to restore an economic blockade.
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Iraq suggested an economic blockade would not work in practice.
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Israel has also been trying to undermine Hamas by clamping an economic blockade on Gaza, while boosting the economy of the West Bank, where the Palestinians' more pliant secular movement, Fatah, holds sway.
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In Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, thousands of protesters are clashing with police and threatening to impose an indefinite economic blockade.
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"Our borders with Iran and Kuwait were blocked and there was an international economic blockade, so I remember it was very expensive to buy anything fancy, " she said.
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The 17 leaders who attended the summit meanwhile called on the US to comply with 13 consecutive United Nations resolutions and "bring an end to the economic, trade and financial blockade it maintains against Cuba".
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