The national executive had tabled a resolution calling for sanctions against Italy, which Lansbury opposed as a form of economic warfare.
On Thursday, the European Parliament approved a resolution calling for stiff sanctions against Mr. Lukashenko and other top Belarussian officials.
If anyone intends to dispute or add pressure about this, we will have to take stronger physical actions in other forms". Japan, with the support of the United States and Britain, introduced a resolution calling for economic sanctions against Pyongyang.
Dick Cheney opposed sanctions against South Africa under apartheid and voted against a resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela.
The apparent nuclear test came just weeks after the Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for the tightening of sanctions against North Korea for that rocket launching, a violation of earlier resolutions prohibiting the country from testing ballistic missile technology.
On Thursday, MEPs backed a resolution calling for new EU human rights sanctions to punish state and non-state actors responsible for gross violations of human rights.
Mr. Abe spoke of possible financial sanctions, and also said that the two allies would press the United Nations for a resolution calling for further international penalties.
The United Nations Security Council voted Tuesday on a resolution calling for an end to violence there and suggesting the possibility of sanctions; the resolution failed after Russia and China vetoed it.
This month, the same body sanctioned a resolution allowing such observers to fly their flag at the UN.
Japan agreed to shelve, at least for a few days, a UN Security Council resolution calling for sanctions on North Korea, backed, if necessary, by force.
Obviously, the use of ground troops by Qatar (and apparently a scattering of others) went beyond United Nations strictures against such use and incurred sharp Russian displeasure; it may well have been a factor in Russia's subsequent veto of a United Nations resolution calling for sanctions against the Syrian regime.
