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[Timmy True]

How many Countries has Sanctions been used against in a a political dispute in the last 20 yrs.

[Octavius]

The UN Security Council has invoked Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter to impose sanctions in sixteen cases: Afghanistan, Angola, Cote d�Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Sudan and the former Yugoslavia.

In the cases of Angola, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Haiti, Libya, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and the former Yugoslavia, sanctions have been fully lifted. In the case of Iraq, sanctions have been lifted, with the exception of some prohibitions related to the sale or supply to Iraq of arms and related materiel. In the case of Sudan, sanctions were lifted, but some new sanctions measures were approved in 2005. Sanctions against Afghanistan have been fully lifted, but other measures in Resolution 1267 (1999) that apply to al-Qaeda and the Taliban remain in effect.

[Timmy True]

Thank you octavious

[jno]

sanctions are also used periodically in trade disputes under the World Trade Organisation or its predecessor bodies. These are political too. I believe we're currently imposing tariffs on Chinese shoes, which is one form of sanction.

[Timmy True]

Yes Sactions are a terrible thing, although they may work sometimes But correct me if I am wrong but was it just not that which made Japan attack Korea in the 1930s Now the Japs themselves are using them against N. Korea. It's a funny world.