Iraq has raised more than $13 billion for food, medicines and other vital supplies under a United Nations plan that allows it to sell some oil under international sanctions, says a report sent today by Secretary General Kofi Annan to the Security Council.
The EU has also tightened its Iran sanctions following a report by the UN's nuclear watchdog that said Iran had carried out tests "relevant to the development of a nuclear device".
The global bank HSBC has been used by Mexican drug cartels looking to get cash back into the United States, by Saudi Arabian banks that needed access to dollars despite their terrorist ties and by Iranians who wanted to circumvent United States sanctions, a Senate report says.
8 Sanctions Hurting Afghanistan A report by the United Nations' relief coordinator in Afghanistan says that the existing economic embargo is having "a tangible negative effect" on the country and on efforts to help the Afghan people.
For instance, at a meeting in 2002, an annual report said, the sanctions committee "considered a report from the Islamic Republic of Iran on the interception of an alleged oil-smuggling attempt in its territorial waters," adding, "The committee took note of this information".
Almost a quarter of claimants (24%) between 2010 and 2015 received a sanction, the report said.
Last month, Washington announced additional sanctions against Iran after a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency that linked its uranium enrichment program with nuclear weapons development.
President Charles Taylor of Liberia faces the imposition of Security Council sanctions on Monday after a report from Secretary General Kofi Annan concluded that Mr. Taylor had not met the council's requirement to sever all ties with the rebel Revolutionary United Front in neighboring Sierra Leone.
At the end of February, after the scheduled enactment of new American sanctions, the Department of Energy will issue a report on which countries remain Iran's oil clients.
The facts came out in June, when a U.N. group of experts monitoring sanctions in eastern Congo published a report accusing Rwanda of supporting, as it had done before since the late 1990s, a Congolese rebellion this time named March 23.
In another part of Mr. Ross's portfolio, the United States is trying to rally support for new sanctions in the wake of a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency asserting that Iran has continued work on a nuclear weapon.
