Opposition on Capitol Hill is fierce: the House of Representatives condemned the lifting of the embargo by 411 votes to three.
The lifting of the embargo would allow the Castro's to borrow from international organizations: such as the IMF, the World Bank, etc.
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Contrary to critics' claims, lifting of the embargo and the travel ban without meaningful changes in Cuba will have several negative repercussions.
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"Full lifting of the embargo and a halt to the US-British aggression is the solution that would satisfy Iraq's people, " a statement issued after the meeting said.
But a lifting of the embargo - the world's oldest, having been imposed in 1992 - had been pushed for by the new government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
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They assumed that the benefits of the peace process the lifting of the Arab embargo, rising living standards, receding prospects of war would speak for themselves.
After all, this outcome was made virtually inevitable by the Europeans' unwillingness over the past week to implement or enforce what the United States hoped would be the three basic pillars of allied action -- the lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnian Muslims, air strikes and a total shut-down of the Danube and other essential supply lines for the Serbian war machine and economy.
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The alleged purpose: to effect a prompt lifting of the trade embargo against Hanoi.
Instead, proponents of lifting the embargo repeat like a mantra the effusive praise Hanoi's "cooperation" has been getting from military officers like Gen.
But there can be little doubt that a lifting of the American embargo would help those within the regime in Havana who want to move in a more liberal direction.
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However, the lifting of most elements of the trade embargo, which is part of a law (the Helms-Burton Act) that could only be changed by the US Congress, would require negotiations and concessions by Cuba.
The commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army, General Selim Idriss, has called for the lifting of the EU embargo, saying it is having a much more negative effect on the opposition than on the Assad regime.
Also on Wednesday, the Commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army, Gen Selim Idriss, called for the lifting of the EU arms embargo against Syria, saying it is having a much more negative effect on the opposition than on the Assad regime.
The reward Iraq now has been encouraged to expect is the lifting of the oil export embargo, which was meant to force Iraq not only to give access to U.N. inspectors but also to comply with other important provisions of the cease-fire agreement that ended the Gulf War.
Although Obama lifted some restrictions on travel and remittances to the island by Cuban-Americans, many in the region want more, including the lifting of the decades-old embargo, something Obama says he is not considering.
The recent lifting of the seven-year-old United Nations air embargo has brought hopes of an imminent tourist boom.
So the formula of air strikes and lifting the arms embargo is still the right one to apply.
It would have been unseemly if not highly counterproductive to embrace in public the "America is resource-constrained and committed to multilateral action" excuse at the very moment when President Clinton was promising billions for Boris Yeltsin and talking about bombing the Serbs and lifting the arms embargo in the face of European opposition.
The cleverest variant of the anti-embargo argument holds that the U.S. should offer a partial lifting of the sanctions in return for the step-by-step granting of political and economic freedoms to Cuba.
Repealing the embargo would fit into an American precedent of lifting trade and travel restrictions to countries who demonstrate progress towards democratic ideals.
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Worse yet, the predictable (and predicted (1) ) pressure to take the next step toward full normalization of relations with Vietnam lifting the U.S. economic embargo is already beginning to mount.
Another promise of President Obama, recently reiterated by Vice President Joseph Biden, is that lifting the embargo will necessitate some improvement in human rights on the island.
It wants the United States, before lifting the embargo, to secure a commitment from Europe and Latin America to press for the release of political prisoners.
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Lifting the embargo would allow Cuba access to lending organizations such as the World Bank, which should be wary of Castro's history of nonpayment: The country has the largest per capita foreign debt in the world.
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