{"id":84797,"date":"2022-02-09T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T01:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=84797"},"modified":"2022-02-09T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T01:36:18","slug":"russia-organizes-un-security-council-debate-vs-wielding-sanctions-against-peoples-and-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2022\/02\/09\/russia-organizes-un-security-council-debate-vs-wielding-sanctions-against-peoples-and-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Organizes UN Security Council Debate vs. Wielding Sanctions Against Peoples and Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:19px\"><strong>Russia Organizes UN Security Council Debate vs. Wielding Sanctions Against Peoples and Nations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feb.&nbsp;8, 2022 (EIRNS)\u2014Being chair this month of the UN Security Council, the Russian Federation organized an Open Debate on Monday on \u201cGeneral Issues Relating to Sanctions: Preventing their Humanitarian and Unintended Consequences.\u201d Two UN officials and representatives from 19 nations spoke, most warning of how the use of sanctions has run amuck, becoming the preferred choice instead of the original concept of a measure of last resort, often with disastrous consequences for the right to food, water, shelter, and health of peoples caught in the crossfire of sanctions. Several African representatives noted that eight of the 14 U.N. sanction regimes are imposed on African nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy spoke for the Russian side, warning that UN &#8222;sanctions must never be used as a \u2018punitive\u2019 tool\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe strongly call for UNSC-imposed restrictions to always remain targeted and flexible. We need to take greater heed of what the authorities of states under sanctions think, be more realistic when elaborating the so-called benchmarks and make sure that they do not turn into a mission impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBy our estimates, many of today\u2019s UNSC sanctions regimes already fall behind the <em>de facto<\/em> situation, interfering with plans for state-building and socio-economic development\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCollateral damage of sanctions must be taken seriously, as it devastates the national economy, brings down living standards and the well-being of the population. This problem grew even worse against the backdrop of the fierce COVID-19 pandemic. We hear words that the Security Council\u2019s restrictive measures must not have a bearing on the life of ordinary people, but unfortunately when it comes to the practical impact of such restrictions, they often trigger deterioration of socio-economic situation in countries that live under sanctions\u2026. We are convinced that UNSC sanctions machinery needs to be \u2018humanitarized\u2019\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had even harsher words against \u201cthe malignant trend\u201d of unilateral sanctions imposed by countries outside the UNSC, by individual countries or groups of countries, which often include sanctions on third parties who break those \u201cunilateral\u201d sanctions. Polyanskiy cited, as he went along, examples of the damage resulting from UNSC and unilateral sanctions, ranging from the freezing of assets of Afghanistan and Libya, to the sanctions against Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, Iran, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Guinea Bissau, and the DPRK, including the 60 years of sanctions against Cuba. According to the UN rapporteur\u2019s report on the debate, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield shamed the United States, putting up a strong defense of sanctions for allegedly improving lives, asserting adamantly the U.S.\u2019s right to impose unilateral sanctions, because imposing them through the United Nations Security Council is often blocked by \u201ccertain members.\u201d She had the temerity to assert that humanitarian exemptions \u201censure that the pain of sanctions do [sic] not affect ordinary people,\u201d daring to claim this as true in Afghanistan, Yemen, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea, and Somalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia Organizes UN Security Council Debate vs. Wielding Sanctions Against Peoples and Nations Feb.&nbsp;8, 2022 (EIRNS)\u2014Being chair this month of the UN Security Council, the Russian Federation organized an Open Debate on Monday on \u201cGeneral Issues Relating to Sanctions: Preventing their Humanitarian and Unintended Consequences.\u201d Two UN officials and representatives from 19 nations spoke, most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":84798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[520,505,508,639,660,742],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-84797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-global-diplomacy","category-russia","category-sanctions","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84809,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84797\/revisions\/84809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}