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ARMS EMBARGOESThe United States government, following the lead of the United Nations (UN) and acting through the Department of State, has placed arms embargoes on certain individuals and countries, making it a federal crime to export or otherwise transfer defense articles and services to those listed. Most of the arms embargoes result from deteriorated security situations in other countries and sometimes come as a reaction to widespread human rights violations by a particular country's leading regime. MoreThe UN arms embargoes, delineated in various Security Council Resolutions, usually prohibit UN Member states from exporting defense articles and services to a particular country or to non-governmental individuals and entities in a particular country. Most of the embargoes have a definitive time limit. At the end of the stated time period, the Security Council will review the embargoes and decide whether to renew them, lift them or partially lift them. In the most severe situations, the Security Council will also impose economic sanctions in the same resolution in which it imposes an arms embargo. More The European Union (EU) also places arms embargoes on countries and other entities, and with the exception of Uzbekistan, EU arms embargoes apply to the same countries as U.S. and UN embargoes. The EU still has a limited embargo on Uzbekistan while the U.S. and UN do not. More Our firm's practice group will challenge the governmental and organizational arms embargo. The goal is to have the entity, country or individual's name removed from the embargo list. The tools we use are the governmental institutions' own documents, international law and strategic public diplomacy. | |