He says he and his client are not entitled to know which country or countries on the Sanctions Committee have placed a hold on the decision.
And in 2008, he was one of two senators on the banking committee to oppose a bill putting sanctions on Iran.
Will Bower, the 36-year-old head of the PUMA pack, and his like-minded Democrats are angry because they charge that the Democratic National Committee unfairly imposed sanctions on Michigan and Florida after both states violated party rules by holding primary contests before February 5.
He and others describe how American and British representatives on the Sanctions Committee hold up everything they suspect, however remotely, to be of dual use.
The sanctions committee must be notified immediately if anyone on the travel ban list has entered another country.
The standards committee is separately considering the issue of sanctions as part of an on-going review.
The Arab League sanctions are set to be discussed by the group's economic committee on Saturday, and then raised to a meeting of Arab foreign ministers on Sunday.
If the sanctions committee finds the shipment originated in Iran, that would breech a ban on arms exports.
The resolution allows for an "adjustment" of sanctions, and Monday's statement sets up a committee to make recommendations on such an adjustment by April 24.
According to The Washington Post, a few days prior the Kozyrev remarks in Stockholm, a Russian representative to the International Monetary Fund threw one of the organization's executive committee meetings into turmoil when he launched into a diatribe against the West's sanctions on Serbia.
The two countries reached an agreement on a wheat-for-oil deal that will go to the UN sanctions committee for approval.
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