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.
In Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, thousands of protesters are clashing with police and threatening to impose an indefinite economic blockade.
Israel, in turn, will halt raids inside Gaza -- and gradually ease its economic blockade if the truce holds.
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If Shalit is returned, Israel will start to lift its economic blockade on Gaza by reopening its border crossings.
Supporters of his rival, Didier Ratsiraka, the ex-president who claims to be president still, tightened their economic blockade of the capital, Antananarivo.
In return, Azerbaijan would restore telephone and other links with Armenia, thus lifting what the Armenians call the 'economic blockade' of their country.
According to Ryzhkov, if Moscow's demands are not met, the Soviet Union will reimpose a harsh economic blockade on all three independent republics.
Add that to the crippling economic blockade of Tripoli, and suddenly NATO's mission appeared to be focused more on regime change than on protecting innocent civilians.
Jeremy Browne, the Foreign Office minister responsible for Falklands policy, doubts that, say, Brazil or Uruguay has much interest in a regional economic blockade of the islands.
"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.
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.
Iraq suggested an economic blockade would not work in practice.
Is the Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania legal under GATT?
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The terms will probably include an end to Hamas's rocket fire and tighter monitoring of the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, in return for Israel's lifting of its economic blockade (see article).
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.
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".
Israel, he claimed, is responsible for all of Gaza's economic woes because of its lawful maritime blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory's coastline.
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Gunness ignored the fact that despite that lawful blockade, which he falsely labeled "a clear breach of international law, " Gaza has experienced overall economic growth in recent years.
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