UN Official Urges Global Lift on Sanctions
Another United Nations official called for global sanctions to be lifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying sanctions are impacting health care systems, according to an April 3 press release. Sanctions should be removed until the virus has subsided, said…
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Alena Douhan, a UN human rights official, adding that countries should “immediately” withdraw all trade barriers and ban tariffs, quotas and non-tariff measures. "Sanctioned countries are especially hard-hit as they cannot use their revenues to purchase imports of equipment, medicines, antiviral and food from global markets," she said. Other UN officials have issued similar statements (see 2004030020 and 2003250010).