Botswana's foreign minister wants sanctions against Zimbabwe to include stopping oil supplies.
These include: the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Libyan sanctions regulations, restrictions on campaign contributions by foreign nationals and passport travel restrictions.
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Incorporating U.S. capital market sanctions into foreign policy is unprecedented, although the idea of using capital market leverage is not new.
Over the past several weeks and months, Israel's top leaders have devoted themselves to lobbying foreign governments to support sanctions against Iran.
For foreign agencies, a sanctions-free South Africa is tempting.
Iraqis complain that, were it not for sanctions, foreign ships would be overflowing from cramped Umm Qasr to the port of Basra, 80 kilometres up the Shatt al-Arab waterway from the Gulf.
The specific list of sanctions that affect our users concern the transfer and export of certain technology to foreign persons and governments on the sanctions list.
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Most obviously, this means the risk that the US may extend the reach of its sanctions policy to touch foreign firms, as it has already done in a limited way with the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act.
From time to time, America has imposed trade sanctions on the foreign companies involved.
U.S. officials believe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is increasingly dominating Tehran's foreign policy, particularly as sanctions threaten to cripple the Iran economy.
With sanctions lifted, foreign investment is now pouring in from Western nations, in addition to the players who have been making inroads for years such as China, Thailand and Singapore.
While the US government has never been shy about using sanctions as a foreign policy tool, there has been great reluctance, particularly from the US Treasury, to link these measures in any way to the US capital markets.
Hence - having ruled out sanctions altogether - the hint of a shift in the Russian foreign minister's recent comments that "if sanctions could help stop violence and maintain stability... we would be the most decisive supporters".
They charge the measures could be part of an SEC design to tighten "extraterritorial" U.S. sanctions and penalize uncooperative foreign firms and governments.
Earlier this month U.S President Barack Obama imposed economic sanctions on seven suspected foreign drug lords, including two Kenyans-John Harun Mwau, a prominent politician, and Naima Mohamed Nyakiniywa, a local businesswoman.
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In these cases, the withdrawal of foreign aid or the application of economic sanctions often failed to impact the intended targets.
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Minister for foreign affairs Brian Cowen had earlier described sanctions barring Sinn Fein ministers from attending cross border meetings as "disappointing and misconceived".
Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said "smart sanctions" might include a ban on arms sales to Iran, tough UN shipping inspections and "action against the interests of the Iranian revolutionary guard corps".
In response to the first set of EU sanctions, in fact, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem had told a press gathering that Syria would "forget that Europe was on the map" and turn eastward for its business.
In the case of CalPERS, at least, such present problems -- and perhaps the future prospect of security-related sanctions being taken against select foreign firms -- is evidently beginning to translate into investors declining to subscribe to such offerings.
Rep. Berman has, after all, traditionally subscribed to the view that economic and political sanctions can be valuable tools of foreign policy.
His foreign minister, Markos Kyprianou, wanted new sanctions on the Turks for refusing to open their ports and airports to the Greek-Cypriots, something Mr Christofias was anxious to avoid.
"Russia sees such extraterritorial measures as unacceptable and against international law, " said a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, issued a day after the new sanctions were announced.
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The Iraqi vice-president gave no details of the agreement, but a spokesman for the Indian foreign ministry clarified that India would consult the UN sanctions committee before finalising it.
Economic sanctions against the country kept Libya isolated from foreign investment for years.
In April, the EU lifted all non-military sanctions for a year during a visit by foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
The sanctions were formally adopted at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday.
Mr Vajpayee wants to assuage foreign wrath in order to reduce the impact and duration of sanctions.
Ms Harney's criticism follows Irish foreign minister Brian Cowen's strongly worded attack on the sanctions earlier on Thursday.
The disclosure requirement affects any company or entity that is covered by sanctions administered by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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