No one since the days of the Oil-for-Food scandal has yet explained who actually enforces compliance with U.N. sanctions by all 192 U.N. member states--and their endlessly proliferating front companies.
Security Council, we agreed on the need for Iran to uphold its international obligations or face increased sanctions and pressure, including U.N. sanctions.
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Foreign Minister Lavrov wouldn't say whether Russia would support U.N. sanctions, and Rice didn't push it.
And in the interim we are going to move forcefully on a U.N. sanctions regime.
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In 1990, British warships were authorized to use force to enforce U.N. sanctions against Iraq.
He has worked tirelessly for U.N. sanctions, which will be only be a first step if they are adopted.
Iran faces U.N. sanctions at the end of this month unless it complies.
The U.N. sanctions were imposed in 1992 to put pressure on Libya to turn over suspects in the Lockerbie bombing.
The Bush administration signaled over the weekend that it will seek new U.N. sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear program.
In 1996, U.N. sanctions against the Bosnian Serbs were suspended following their compliance with conditions laid down by the Security Council.
But U.N. sanctions against Smith's Rhodesia went largely ignored, and the Africans turned to guerrilla warfare, known as the second Chimurenga.
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Russia has refused to support U.N. sanctions against Syria, its longtime ally.
In addition, if U.N. sanctions are lifted, the naval maritime intercept program to monitor oil smuggling out of Iraq would not be needed.
And secondly, the Iranians knew that this was probably coming -- they knew that the U.N. sanctions were coming, so they probably have taken steps.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the report demonstrated the U.N. sanctions were not working and Saddam was "doing his best" to get around them.
But that was stopped when U.N. sanctions were imposed last November.
Russia has been Assad's staunch ally, supplying Damascus with weapons, shielding the regime from tougher U.N. sanctions and supporting Assad in his resolve to remain in power.
What is your specific timeline for U.N. sanctions on Iran?
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The head of the German parliament's Foreign Relations Committee, Ruprecht Polenz, says Washington should show more patience and not be in such a rush to get targeted U.N. sanctions.
After the court's ruling, hailed by the Palestinians, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman said he does not expect U.N. sanctions to result from the court action.
Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has demanded that the summit support his country's demands for an end to both U.N. sanctions and U.S. and British air patrols over Iraq.
Has the administration worked out clearly in its own mind what its procedures are going to be in tracking this vessel to -- in order to enforce the U.N. sanctions?
The final version of the draft resolution, released Wednesday, identified three individuals, one corporation and one organization that would be added to the U.N. sanctions list if the measure is approved.
Immediately after those talks, Iraq remained insistent that discussions would progress only if issues such as U.S. threats against Iraq, the no-fly zones, and U.N. sanctions against Iraq were on the table.
Ambassador Bolton dismissed North Korea's threats that U.N. sanctions would be a declaration of war, saying that the consensus opinion holds that Pyongyang has hurt its standing with its tests and its public statements.
Obama reaffirmed the U.S. alliance with South Korea and said North Korea, which is under U.N. sanctions for its efforts to start a nuclear program, could join the community of nations by dropping all nuclear ambitions.
France had threatened to hold up the lifting of U.N. sanctions imposed on Libya for the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am 103 airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, if Libya did not satisfy the UTA families' demands.
First of all, the international unity that has been expressed through the P5-plus-1 has been the foundation of all the pressure we've been able to apply on Iran in the last two years, including the sanctions in U.N.
Unless Libya moves swiftly to obey this morning's order of the ICC to halt the domestic prosecution of Mr. Al-Senussi, and hand him over to the ICC immediately, Libya will before long become a pariah state, subject to U.N. sanctions.
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At the summit, the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia agreed to resume all-party talks, suspend U.N. sanctions on Bosnian Serbs, work to ease tensions in Sarajevo and the divided town of Mostar and adopt a policy on war crimes and prisoners.
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