The European Union also approved an embargo on Iranian oil that goes into effect in July.
Israel has relaxed its embargo on Gaza, so more goods are getting through legitimately.
France and Britain have indicated their willingness to bypass the European embargo on the Syrian opposition.
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.
The administration imposed a military embargo on Venezuela and urged other countries to do the same.
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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.
They include an embargo on Iraqi oil and limits on its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs.
One major legislative achievement was the 1996 Helms-Burton act, which tightened the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba.
The four-year embargo on weapons and fuel has been broken with ease, contributing to the current crisis.
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.
Pyongyang supplied light arms and artillery at a time of an international arms embargo on the Islamic Republic.
It is believed other options include more surveillance, humanitarian help and the enforcement of an arms embargo on Libya.
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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The decision also comes as Britain and France are leading efforts to lift a European Union arms embargo on Syria.
Meanwhile, the government has also clashed with its own MPs over its proposal to lift the EU arms embargo on China.
This is roughly equivalent to Thomas Jefferson's 1807 embargo on American exports to protect U.S. shipping from British and French interference.
The U.S. and its sometime partners in western Europe have come to a head over maintaining an embargo on militarily useful ware.
His support for the embargo on Cuba and his opposition to gun control at home may be wrong-headed, but they are genuine.
The separate embargo on China seemed set to go early this year.
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To these Mr Cook this week added an arms embargo on Zimbabwe.
The Administration yielded further ground to the Soviet Union in its handling of the issue of humanitarian exceptions to the embargo on Iraq.
As a result, I would accept your claim that lifting sanctions unilaterally is unwise if you mean removing the arms embargo on Iraq.
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