Recognizing that COVID-19 is further straining humanitarian needs in sanctioned countries and complicating compliance with economic sanctions, and perhaps also in response to reports that US sanctions are hindering COVID-19...more
4/28/2020
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Cuba ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Executive Orders ,
FEMA ,
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Iran ,
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Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Russia ,
Secondary Sanctions ,
Syria ,
Ukraine ,
Venezuela
On October 23, the President asked the Department of the Treasury to lift previously imposed sanctions against Turkey following the cessation of Turkey’s offensive in Syria and the implementation of a lasting ceasefire....more
On Friday, August 2, 2019, the US State Department announced the issuance of another round of sanctions on the Russian Government in relation to the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991...more