"Don't rely too much on sanctions, as outside pressure tends to unite the Iranian people rather than divide them.
However, at the beginning of the 1990s, cement factories in Hui Town received serious sanctions from outside, as many of them labeled poor quality cement as high quality.
Greek officials have said they would be willing to help, but there is no indication that Mr. Milosevic would sanction such outside involvement.
In labor, industrial workers fume at jobs lost to outside sanctions while oil workers bask in the sun of high oil prices.
They will continue to be at a significant disadvantage in technical negotiations if they don't hire outside sanctions experts to help them decipher what type of relief can be granted and in what manner it can be granted.
But the French can press the sanctions process outside the Security Council (China and Russia are unlikely to cooperate) in a way that serves as encouragement, if not cover, for Mr. Obama choosing much sharper persuasion.
But it points out that Mr Hussein's main source of illicit revenue was from sanctions violations outside the programme, including smuggling oil via Turkey and Jordan, two key American allies.
"We are convinced that threats, pressure and sanctions exerted from the outside are counterproductive," said Vitaly I. Churkin, the Russian ambassador.
North Korea's reliance on China has deepened as international sanctions have tightened and outside aid has dwindled after the country's nuclear and long-range missile tests in recent years.
