Search: USA,COVID-19,Sanctions (7 materials)

Ensuring Sustainable Development and Peace: Who in the UN is Against it?

Despite calls from the United Nations, the Global North does not deem it necessary to change its sanctions policies March 2021 marks a year since the World Health Organization announced that the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 had turned into a pandemic. Despite the highly negative socioeconomic consequences it had for the international community, the U.S.-led countries of the North did not alter their course to prevent the UN General Assembly from adopting resolutions ...

24.03.2021

Pandemic Amid an Economic Crisis: Challenges for Syria

... published on September 23, 2020, the damage done to the Syrian economy by the end of 2019 exceeded USD 442 bn. Still, under sanctions and with no international consensus on how to finance recovery, the country has not only failed to overcome the acute ... ... petrol from 250 to 450 Syrian pounds (i.e., from 20 to 36 cents). Coronavirus Pandemic: Numbers and Reality At first glance, the COVID-19 statistics in Syria look more optimistic than those of neighbouring countries. For example, in terms of the number of ...

09.11.2020

The Caesar Act: A New Challenge for Syria?

... favour. Last year, he was rumoured to have been placed under house arrest for his refusal to donate the bulk of his 5-billion-dollar fortune to advance the Syrian President’s... ... Act as an Aggravating Factor While the Department of State insists that secondary sanctions do not extend to the humanitarian sphere, they cannot but have an effect on... ... Nahyan and Bashar al-Assad, when the parties discussed aid to Syria in combating the COVID-19. The Caesar Act and Russia’s Economic Presence in Syria Nothing Good Can...

10.08.2020

China Replacing Russia as the Boogeyman in the U.S. Presidential Campaign: Implications for Russia-China Relations

... Administration v. China Despite that fact, in 2017 and 2018, the U.S. imposed economic sanctions against Russian entities. This led to the further aggravation of already sour... ... Bianca Canevari: Towards Strategic Autonomy: the Role of the EU in the Growing China-USA Rivalry Following a blueprint tailored for Russia, the U.S. has resorted to a maximum... ... Despite a minuscule slide in bilateral trade (a 4% decline compared to 2019) amid COVID-19, political cooperation has been developing. In early July, both countries ...

04.08.2020

The Coronavirus and Conflicts in the Middle East

... of military conflicts in the Middle East during a pandemic The question of the political and socioeconomic consequences the COVID-19 pandemic will have for global development has prompted heated analytical discussions among leading politicians, economists ... ..., prisons and camps for refugees and displaced persons are seen as the source of the infection. Ivan Timofeev: The Price of Sanctions is Human Lives Syria is a special case in the general picture of Middle Eastern conflicts amid the coronavirus pandemic....

26.05.2020

Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's Open Letter

... American citizens jailed abroad ( https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-pres…/ ). They are promising to impose sanctions against “guilty governments”, should their compatriots die due to the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the situation with COVID-19 in the American correctional facilities keeps deteriorating rapidly ( https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/ ). Many inmates ... ... the Russian citizens. Their life and health are under the threat. Anatoly I.Antonov Source: Facebook Embassy of Russia in the USA

08.05.2020

The Price of Sanctions is Human Lives

... exemptions will have no effect without significant systemic changes introduced at least for the period of the pandemic The COVID-19 epidemic has sparked a discussion about the possible suspension of economic sanctions. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is among those calling for such a step to be taken. Indeed, the virus is now ... ... Even though the UN Sanctions Committee approved applications for humanitarian exemptions, a host of problems arose—bank refusals, supplier delays, delays at customs, etc. Christian Wollny: Coronavirus Reveals Cracks in European Unity Individual exemptions ...

31.03.2020

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