(b) Implementing a trade embargo on the export of charcoal originating in Somalia

1.3 How the extraterritorial nature of the embargo affects foreign trade and investments

The United States trade embargo against Cuba is a bilateral issue that should not come before the General Assembly.

In domestic trade, the embargo has increased costs by 66.8 million, mostly as a result of using middlemen for shipping and purchases.

(c) Implementing a ban on foreign vessels fishing in Somali waters and a trade embargo on the export of fish taken in Somali waters.

Arms embargo

Arms embargo

Arms embargo

Arms embargo

Arms embargo

Arms embargo

Cuba's material possibilities had been severely limited by the economic, financial and trade embargo, which only two weeks previously had been overwhelmingly condemned by the General Assembly.

Although the total embargo on trade between the United States and Cuba was formally decreed by means of an Executive Order of President John F. Kennedy on 3 February 1962, the embargo actions actually started a few weeks after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on 1 January 1959.

The damage caused by the extraterritorial nature of the embargo is exacerbated by the scale of participation of the United States and its companies in international trade and investments.

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Status of the embargo

Monitoring the arms embargo

Territory of the embargo

It is estimated that, in 2004, the impact of the embargo on Cuba's foreign trade was 822.6 million, which was 57.2 million higher than the total for the preceding year.

When Putin became president in 2000, he named accession to the World Trade Organization as his foreign policy priority. He failed, because he gave in to petty protectionist interests, imposing a timber embargo against Finland and Sweden, a fish embargo against Norway, and various agricultural embargos against Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and others.

The charcoal trade has been mentioned in past reports of the Monitoring Group and the Panel of Experts as a considerable source of revenue for factions engaged in arms embargo violations.

This led to a general repeal of trade preferences on imports and thus went beyond the weapons embargo ordered by the Security Council in resolution 713 (1991) of 25 September 1991.

Scope of the arms embargo

Monitoring of the arms embargo

C. Improving the arms embargo

Scope of the arms embargo

Examples of arms embargo violations

E. Arms embargo ban implemented?

C. Arms embargo ban implemented?

The strengthening of the embargo in the cultural field also prevented Cuban representatives from attending the American Booksellers Association BookExpo America trade fair, at which Cuba had been consistently represented since 1994.

Taking advantage of the traditional coastal trade between the waters of the western Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, arms embargo violators have now combined this trade with arms shipment and, in some cases, outright arms trafficking by sea.

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Recommendations an integrated arms embargo approach

6380 Prohibition for political reasons (embargo)

Reported violations of arms embargo in Somalia

The embargo has a marked extraterritorial component.

Resolution 1596 (2005) extended the embargo to the entire Democratic Republic of the Congo, and helped to clarify the exemptions to the embargo.

Known arms embargo violations during the mandate period

The integrated arms embargo concept is detailed below.

Monitoring Team activities related to the arms embargo

(d) Monitor the implementation of the arms embargo.

Of the 34 arms shipments identified by the Monitoring Group, 21 transactions were conducted through the Bakaaraha arms market, which reaffirms the central role it plays in the arms trade and in arms embargo violations in Somalia.

Analysis of trends and patterns of arms embargo violations

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo

Growing opposition to the embargo within the United States