41.   Unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States on Libya are unlikely to be eased soon, officials said.

42.   Unilateral sanctions might violate WTO rules, a decision which the trade body will make after listening to arguments from both sides and commentary from other WTO members.

43.   Yet, the leadership is using significantly different arguments to thwart legislation that would eliminate unilateral sanctions on the sales of food and medicine elsewhere in the world.

44.   But Rexrodt and other officials said unilateral sanctions from the United States were the wrong way to achieve this.

45.   Cuban President Fidel Castro said Tuesday that his first visit to Iran would strengthen bonds between the two nations, both locked under unilateral U.S. sanctions.

46.   However, Rexrodt and other officials said unilateral sanctions was the wrong way to achieve this.

47.   If the United States goes ahead with threatened unilateral sanctions, Japan has vowed it will also file a complaint in the WTO.

48.   In his statement, Brittan urged the United States not to press ahead with unilateral sanctions against third countries.

49.   Iran was pleased with a recent EU response to unilateral U.S. sanctions against Tehran.

50.   It added that Malaysia and the entire international community is vigorously opposed to the extra-territorial provisions of the Act that prescribes unilateral sanctions.