The European Union also approved an embargo on Iranian oil that goes into effect in July.
At Moscow's insistence, a voluntary arms embargo on Syria was also cut from the draft.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also called for an arms embargo on Zimbabwe.
In 1995, the Senate voted 69-to-29 to unilaterally lift the U.N. embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia.
The prime minister has urged the European Union to end its embargo on arms supply to Syria.
The announcement was welcomed in Washington and President George W Bush formally lifted a trade embargo on Libya.
Britain, he said, would be using any changes in the EU arms embargo on Syria to the full.
Security Council to protect Khartoum, pledging to veto any U.N. bid to impose an oil embargo on Sudan.
In 1942, the company dropped the word silk since there was an embargo on silk during World War II.
Meanwhile, the Congolese authorities are seeking an embargo on the trade in minerals from Rwanda, Reuters news agency reports.
It imposes a complete arms embargo on Libya and mechanisms to enforce it.
EU, along with Australia and the United States, imposed as one of its sanctions an embargo on arms sales.
For its part, the European Union has imposed an embargo on Iranian oil.
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This is roughly equivalent to Thomas Jefferson's 1807 embargo on American exports to protect U.S. shipping from British and French interference.
To these Mr Cook this week added an arms embargo on Zimbabwe.
Some American congressmen have called for an embargo on petrol imports if Iran does not come to terms over its controversial nuclear programme.
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In July 1941 the U.S. government issued an ultimatum to Japan: withdraw from Indochina or the U.S. would impose an oil embargo on Japan.
Correspondents say a compromise seems to have been reached: lifting an embargo on small arms for one year but keeping restrictions on heavy weapons.
The embargo on an economy designed to survive by plantation exports was crippling - and Haiti has still not recovered from that early shock.
Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari objected to the draft treaty's failure to include an embargo on transferring arms to "terrorist armed groups and to non-state actors".
For instance, America slapped a unilateral trade embargo on Sudan last November just as Egypt was warming its previously chilly relations with Sudan's Islamist regime.
The European Union imposed a worldwide embargo on British beef exports in 1996 following evidence that infected meat caused a fatal brain-wasting disease in humans.
In return the Americans have lifted an embargo on the Russian state arms export agency and its associates suspected of transferring sensitive technology to Iran.
Since Russia slammed an embargo on Georgian wine several years ago, Georgian wines have started appearing for the first time on store shelves in neighboring Turkey.
These include America's embargo on backing loans from the World Bank, which would impose higher environmental and other standards on big infrastructure projects such as Myitsone.
The abandonment of the European Union's arms embargo on Syria is a piece of diplomatic signalling that could prove as confused in its effects as it was in its origins.
America, Russia and the European Union have clamped a punishing diplomatic and economic embargo on the Palestinian government in an effort to force Hamas to soften its stance.
Among his suggestions: a 72-hour embargo on juicy details starting after a TV episode airs live, allowing viewers to catch up via digital video recorders and other technology.
This, plus the EU embargo on Iranian oil which started in July, have cut Iran's oil income by at least 45%, hence the current crisis in hard currency.
In July last year, President George Bush signed into law an embargo on all imports from Myanmar and, more importantly, a ban on financial transactions with the country.
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