However, it will be an uphill battle to get the council to impose sanctions on Iran.
In such circumstances, diplomats believe, the United States would be obliged to impose sanctions on India too.
Additionally, Clinton is bound by U.S. law to impose sanctions on any state that explodes a nuclear bomb.
UN's secretary-general, urged the Security Council to impose sanctions on the two countries to force them out of Congo.
The reports come as Washington is accelerating both unilateral and multilateral efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
This leaves it in a dilemma over multilateral efforts to impose sanctions on Iran because of suspicions about its nuclear programme.
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"To blindly pressure and impose sanctions on Iran aren't constructive approaches, " China's Foreign Ministry said, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Either way, he does not expect the Americans to impose sanctions on Total, a French firm making a huge investment in Iran.
The UN Security Council has threatened to impose sanctions on Sudan and South Sudan if the two nations fail to halt the recent violence.
Heavily Democratic unions, particularly the United Steelworkers, have led the fight to impose sanctions on a broad range of Chinese imports, including tires and steel pipes.
Enforcement on the other hand refers to the ability of the public or the institution responsible for accountability to impose sanctions on the offending party (individual or institution).
Since Venezuela is a key Iran partner it only makes sense for the United States, the European Union and the United Nations to impose sanctions on Venezuela, as well.
After he fled abroad in 1994, Soyinka became a self-appointed diplomat who campaigned against Abacha's regime and encouraged Western countries to impose sanctions on the Nigerian government and its allies.
The United States has led a campaign at the United Nations to impose sanctions on the Taleban government, which ironically includes a ban on most air travel to and from Afghanistan.
But he called for reform of the stability of growth pact, arguing it needed to encompass public debt as well as deficits, and make it easier to impose sanctions on wayward signatories.
"To be an observer, you have to be objective and once you impose sanctions on one party, your objectivity goes up in smoke, " Mr Mumbengegwi, a Zanu-PF member, is quoted as saying.
Opposition leader Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib urged the United States to rescind its decision to list the al-Nusra organization as a terrorist group and impose sanctions on its leaders, saying the coalition rejects radical violence.
It is now widely assumed that these two contracts meet the threshold to trigger the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) and now await a presidential determination concerning whether to impose sanctions on the Chinese company, Sinopec.
The Security Council's recent failure to impose sanctions on Mugabe's regime drew scoffs from the 84-year-old Mugabe, who has accused Britain -- Zimbabwe's former colonizer -- of trying to take over the country to get its resources.
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In Scotland, the devolved administration has already tightened dog-control legislation, enabling enforcement officers to impose sanctions on the owners of out-of-control dogs and extending the criminal law on dog control to cover attacks taking place on private property.
At the Paris HLM, the American delegation should make it clear that, unless individual countries begin enforcing the existing COCOM controls, the United States will have no choice but to impose sanctions on their companies engaged in such breaches of Western security.
And Henman called on the tennis authorities to impose stringent sanctions on players if they are found to have been involved in betting irregularities.
Where Cites really packs a punch is in its ability to impose trade sanctions on any country that over-exports a restricted species.
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This legislative initiative would seek to impose immediate sanctions on proliferating Chinese entities as well as a series of graduated penalties on Chinese firms more broadly.
This could require the United States to impose trade sanctions on a country from which it buys some 10% of its imported oil and so is unlikely to happen.
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