41. EU foreign ministers meet Tuesday to consider such sanctions as ending government guarantees for loans to companies doing business in Iran. 42. France and Russia have also suggested closing the nuclear file on Iraq and partially lifting sanctions as a way out of the current deadlock. 43. He would use European trade as a carrot and U.S. sanctions as a stick. 44. However Rifkind, who will be in new Delhi on Thursday, ruled out economic sanctions as a weapon against Indian stubbornness on the test ban treaty. 45. Iraq has long accused Butler of working on behalf of the United States to prolong the sanctions as a way to undermine President Saddam Hussein. 46. Iraq criticized the new sanctions as hurting its economy, but grudgingly accepted them. 47. Iraq has demanded a firm timetable for lifting of U.N. sanctions as a precondition for resuming cooperation. 48. Iraq has long accused UNSCOM of working on behalf of the United States to prolong the sanctions as a means of weakening the government of President Saddam Hussein. 49. Iraq has long accused UNSCOM of working on behalf of the United States to prolong the sanctions as a means to weakening the government of President Saddam Hussein. 50. Insisting he is no protectionist, President Clinton defended his threat of Japanese trade sanctions as necessary to pry open foreign markets and protect jobs in the United States. |