Turkey had declared neither a blockade nor a pacific blockade against Armenia and did not obstruct vessels flying the Armenian flag or carrying commercial goods to Armenia.

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The Armenian allegation about a blockade had no legal basis and was untrue.

As a result of that conflict, a continuous blockade had been imposed on Armenia.

There is absolutely no rule of international law that justifies a blockade in peacetime.

My Special Representative and his colleagues continue to seek the earliest removal of the blockade at both the local and state levels but the blockade remains in place and continues to have deleterious effects on the population.

Nothing relating to the well being of our youth escapes the consequences of the blockade.

The blockade of the refugee camps should be lifted so that his organization could enter the camps.

The commercial blockade of Kalma camp by the Government, following the 20 May riots, is still ongoing.

Policy reasons indicate the inclusion of a blockade even in the absence of armed actions between the parties.

The ongoing blockade of the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons demonstrates the perpetuation of protection problems in Darfur.

This has included, for example, organizing a blockade of Aru and Ariwara border posts in Uganda for several weeks.

This situation is unacceptable, and I strongly urge the Government to lift the blockade without any further delay or precondition.

The United States has run out of pretexts for explaining the maintenance of the criminal blockade and other anti Cuban measures.

It is blaming itself when it adopts extraterritorial laws against Cuba hardening the blockade even more and when it applies them so brutally.

After the blockade of Venezuelan ports by Great Britain, Germany and Italy in 1902, Great Britain and Venezuela exchanged formal notes confirming that this blockade created, ipso facto, a state of war between Great Britain and Venezuela , and as a result there was a need to formally renew and confirm the treaty of 18 April 1825 between them.

I strongly opposed the international call a year ago to boycott Israel s universities. But the Gaza blockade means that Israel boycotts Palestinian academic life.

The Government had achieved much in the field of social development, despite the continuing economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States.

The United States delegation is trying to convince those in this Hall that the blockade is nothing more than a Cuban excuse for our problems.

The difficult situation that the Palestinian people continue to experience as a result of Israel's harsh blockade and aggression, especially during the past five years

Her Government dismissed Armenia's accusations of a blockade against Nagorny Karabakh, since a State could not blockade its own territory on the contrary, it was Armenia which was blockading Azerbaijan, with Nakhichevan completely cut off from the rest of Azerbaijan except by air, to the detriment of the 50,000 jobless people there, including 1,400 families forced out of Nagorny Karabakh.

Israel has continued its blockade of the occupied city of Jerusalem and has prevented Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from reaching it.

It is blaming itself by not complying with the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly over the past 13 years calling for a lifting of the blockade.

As a result of the armed conflict, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic has been under blockade and is linked to the rest of the country only by air.

Strongly condemns the closure and blockade imposed on corridors, and on the Palestinian towns and villages, which have resulted in heavy losses and serious damage to the social and economic life of the Palestinian people, and are detrimental to the Palestinian economy and calls upon the international community to force Israel to end the closure and lift the blockade imposed on the Palestinian territories.

Germany has long seen its strategic interests from within the framework of an integrated EU. A long term blockade of a strong EU will necessarily change this viewpoint.

Azerbaijan's calculations that a blockade of Armenia would mean that our economic and social conditions would plummet while their oil based economy would grow have proved totally faulty.

Apart from the road link via Iran, for whose cooperation her country was very grateful, the only way out of the blockade was the State subsidized air shuttle.

After New China was founded, it faced poverty, and cultural and scientific vacuums, as well as blockade and hostility from Western nations. China's socialist construction still reaped enormous results.

Only a racist, fascist, arrogant, haughty and, indeed, disturbed mentality such as that of the current President of the United States, Mr. Bush, could maintain the criminal blockade against Cuba.

Argentina's concerted efforts to disrupt that industry by imposing an economic blockade on non scheduled charter flights to the islands was completely unacceptable and should cause outrage at the United Nations.

Seven out of every 10 Cubans were born and have lived in the hardship caused by the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States more than four decades ago.

Since the 1909 Naval Conference of London, it has been a defined principle of international law that a blockade is an act of war and its use is accordingly restricted to the belligerents.

The Israelis would not want to have an economic blockade imposed on them, but they impose one on Gaza, and they say, Well, the Palestinians, or some of them, have brought this on themselves.

The United States has that ability, with our Navy, to make sure the sea lanes are open, and, if necessary, to blockade, to make sure that their energy does not go to market, he said.

In addition to the increased tensions in the camp, the blockade is continuing to bring additional hardship for the internally displaced persons, especially given the lack of fresh food commodities and the missed economic opportunities.

They were victims of an odious form of discrimination, manifested by the occupation of Arab lands, the implementation of a policy of repression and blockade by the Israeli occupation forces and the establishment of Israeli settlements.

With respect to the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel's policy of closure and blockade had undermined social development, particularly regarding the rights of women, children and the family, and had aggravated socio economic conditions in Palestinian cities.

So what should be done to bring this about? Above all, border crossings between Israel and the Palestinian territories should be reopened for the sick, for students, and for families whose members were separated by the blockade.

In spite of the economic blockade imposed on Cuba by the Government of the United States, his Government had provided free bursaries to more than 350 young Palestinians, more than 300 of whom had received university degrees.

My previous monthly report on Darfur (S 2005 650) made reference to the commercial blockade by the Government of the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons in southern Darfur that has now been in place for five months.

The blockade, which prevents the flow of critical goods and materials into the camp, seriously violates a significant number of provisions of international human rights and humanitarian law, including provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

We request the Government of the United States of America to comply with the provisions of 13 successive resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, and to end its economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

The short lived hope of achieving a just settlement of the Palestinian question as a result of Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip had evaporated as a result of its continuing policy of arrest, blockade and collective punishment.

We ask the Government of the United States of America to cease immediately the implementation of measures adopted over the past two years with a view to strengthening and deepening the impact of its economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.