"Targeted personal sanctions would break their culture of impunity".
As well as on oil and gas, the Obama administration has imposed personal sanctions on Putin's friends, including Sechin.
Pak blamed an Obama Administration decision, in July, 2016, to impose personal sanctions on Kim Jong Un and other top officials.
Instead they called for personal sanctions targeting Mr. Mugabe and his top aides: their travel banned, financial assets identified and so on.
In a telephone interview, David J. Kramer, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said officials involved in these cases risked personal sanctions in the West.
If he refuses to go, the report adds, he should be threatened with "personal sanctions," including the freezing of his overseas assets and restrictions on his travel.
An EU spokesman refused to say whether the Ukrainian President would be the target of sanctions, but French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said: "There may be a whole scale of sanctions, including personal sanctions".
The crisis has turned Mr Yanukovych into a lame duck.America's threat to impose personal sanctions against him, his family and his backers has restrained Mr Yanukovych from unleashing further violence.
This could mean "restrictions on companies, groups and individuals working, based or living in settlements," while extreme right-wing activists could be subject to "personal sanctions," including denial of entry to the continent.
The personal sanctions have little to do with the country's economic plight and yet, as our briefing this week explains, they hand Mr Mugabe a populist excuse for it.Nevertheless the West (and in particular Britain, which still steers Europe's policy on Zimbabwe) should now change course and offer to lift the sanctions in return for a few critically important pledges by Mr Mugabe.
