[News] World Opposes Sanctions, Only United States And Europe Support Them

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World Opposes Sanctions, Only United States And Europe Support Them
By Ben Norton, April 9, 2023
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Above Photo: The UN Human Rights Council vote condemning sanctions on 3
April 2023.
West Vs The Rest.

The United Nations Human Rights Council voted overwhelmingly to condemn
sanctions. The only countries that expressed support for the tool of
economic warfare were the United States, Britain, European Union member
states, Georgia, and Ukraine.

Sanctions are formally known as unilateral coercive measures, and they
violate international law.

On 3 April, the UN Human Rights Council voted
<https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1x/k1x9rl0nie> with 33 members in support
of and 13 against a resolution that “urges all States to stop adopting,
maintaining, implementing or complying with unilateral coercive measures”.

The document, A/HRC/52/L.18, “urges the removal of such measures, as they
are contrary to the [UN] Charter and norms and principles governing
peaceful relations among States”.

The resolution was submitted by Azerbaijan on behalf of the Non-Aligned
Movement.

It illustrated how UN votes are often the West versus the rest of the world:
For (33)

   - Algeria
   - Argentina
   - Bangladesh
   - Benin
   - Bolivia
   - Cameroon
   - Chile
   - China
   - Costa Rica
   - Cote d’Ivoire
   - Cuba
   - Eritrea
   - Gabon
   - Gambia
   - Honduras
   - India
   - Kazakhstan
   - Kyrgyzstan
   - Malawi
   - Malaysia
   - Maldives
   - Morocco
   - Nepal
   - Pakistan
   - Paraguay
   - Qatar
   - Senegal
   - Somalia
   - South Africa
   - Sudan
   - UAE
   - Uzbekistan
   - Vietnam

Against (13)

   - Belgium
   - Czechia
   - Finland
   - France
   - Georgia
   - Germany
   - Lithuania
   - Luxembourg
   - Montenegro
   - Romania
   - Ukraine
   - United Kingdom
   - United States

Abstained (1)

   -
      - Mexico

The resolution stated that it “strongly condemns the continued unilateral
application and enforcement by certain powers of such measures as tools of
pressure, including political and economic pressure, against any country,
particularly against least developed and developing countries, with a view
to preventing these countries from exercising their right to decide, of
their own free will, their own political, economic and social systems”.

This is a clear reference to Washington’s blockades of Cuba
<https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/02/03/illegal-us-blockade-cuba-60th-anniversary/>
and Venezuela, which aim to overthrow the country’s socialist governments,
and which clearly violate international law.

The resolution added that sanctions cause “serious violations of human
rights of targeted populations”, with “particular consequences for women,
children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities”.

The document cited many past UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council
resolutions and reports by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights that also condemned unilateral sanctions.

The West’s imposition of unilateral sanctions has skyrocketed in recent
decades <https://www.ft.com/content/5b397d6b-bde4-4a8c-b9a4-080485d6c64a>.

According to a 2021 Treasury review, 9,421 parties were sanctioned by the
US government
<https://www.gibsondunn.com/2021-year-end-sanctions-and-export-controls-update/>
at the end of that year, a staggering 933% increase since 2000.

More than one-third of the global population
<https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/01/economic-sanctions-evolved-tool-modern-war>
lives in countries that are suffering under sanctions.
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