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Vietnam Seeks F-16 Jets, Joint Ventures With US in Growing Relationship

Edit Sputnik 02 Jun 2016
Vietnam sees the lifting of the 50-year-old US arms embargo as an opportunity to securely access a flow of advanced American technology for the next generation and to buy F-16 combat jets to patrol the South China Sea, US experts on East Asia told Sputnik ... ....

UN Security Council Renews Sanctions on South Sudan Leaders

Edit Voa News 02 Jun 2016
Congress, saying the administration is “prepared to employ any measure, to include sanctions and an arms embargo” on the leaders of South Sudan ... Panel of Experts on South Sudan describing how arms continue to make their way into the country ... Pressman said the Security Council has asked for a special report from the Panel of Experts on arms procurement since the formation of the transitional government of national unity....

How the next president can start fixing the Iran deal

Edit New York Post 02 Jun 2016
What can our next president do about the flawed, and downright dangerous, Iran deal? ... Iran is in full compliance ... Really? ... The deal’s “sunset” clause allows the mullahs in, at most, 15 years to decide on their own if they want to be a nuclear-armed power. It removes an existing arms embargo after five years and nixes restrictions on industrial advanced centrifuges in less than nine years ... Perhaps even against nuclear-armed mullahs. ....

America's “human rights” record in Vietnam

Edit Vox 02 Jun 2016
During President Barack Obama's visit to Vietnam last month, he announced the end of Washington's longstanding arms embargo against the country. Officially, the United States has always maintained that ending the embargo would be contingent upon Vietnam improving its human rights record ... He had no arms, but did have hands where his shoulders were....

Vietnam will become flashpoint

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 01 Jun 2016
On his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama said the United States would start selling military arms to Vietnam (“Obama banishes Vietnam War vestige by lifting arms embargo,” Associated Press article, May 24 Dispatch) ... It's bad enough that these arms dealers inflict misery around the world to make money....

The EU and Myanmar: A special partnership for peace, democracy and prosperity (European Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
The lifting of sanctions, with the exception of an arms embargo, the reinstatement of trade preferences under the 'Everything But Arms' scheme, and the normalisation of diplomatic relations with a full-fledged EU Delegation in Yangon opened the door for a new partnership ... Union of Myanmar and Ethnic Armed Organisations, as an international witness....

The European Union and Myanmar: A special partnership for democracy, peace and prosperity (European Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
In 2011 Myanmar's quasi civilian government embarked on a substantial process of reform by taking the first steps towards democratisation, peace with the country's ethnic armed groups and socio-economic recovery ... In the following year all EU sanctions, with the exception of an arms embargo, were lifted. Trade preferences under the Everything But Arms ......

EU-Myanmar relations (European External Action Service)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
In 2011 Myanmar's quasi civilian government embarked on a substantial process of reform by taking the first steps towards democratisation, peace with the country's ethnic armed groups and socio-economic recovery ... In the following year all EU sanctions, with the exception of an arms embargo, were lifted ... armed conflict in Myanmar; 'SMART Myanmar'....

UN to track arms flows to South Sudan

Edit Modern Ghana 31 May 2016
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN Security Council on Tuesday requested a special report about weapons flows to South Sudan after major powers failed to agree on imposing an arms embargo on the war-torn country ... Russia, China and Egypt oppose a proposed arms embargo that the United States and Britain argue would help end the conflict that has engulfed South Sudan since December 2013....

Arming former militias may not be a good idea

Edit The National 31 May 2016
On May 16, at a meeting of regional and world powers in Vienna chaired by the United States and Italy, the US secretary of state John Kerry promised to push for the lifting of the arms embargo imposed on Libya five years ago ... Libya's only elected parliament and Gen Haftar have been calling on the UN to lift the arms embargo on the army to help in the fight against terror, but to no avail....

Security Council Renews Sanctions against South Sudan, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2290 (2016) (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
He recalled that his delegation had opposed expanding the sanctions regime to include an arms embargo, and emphasized that its support for the text did not imply agreement with all its provisions....

Why US Lifting Arms Ban on Vietnam Could Be Good for Russia

Edit Sputnik 30 May 2016
The US has lifted its decades-long arms embargo on Vietnam, prompting some to say that Hanoi will gradually turn from a big buyer of Russian weapons into one of the leading importers of US-made military hardware, but experts doubt this will happen. In fact, Moscow could even benefit from Washington's decision ... ....

Arms Embargo Lift Also Means More Regular U.S. Military Visits To Vietnam

Edit National Public Radio 29 May 2016
i. President Barack Obama walks with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang as they review a guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on May 23. AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption. toggle caption AFP/AFP/Getty Images ... AFP/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama's decision to lift the arms embargo against Vietnam was about much more than selling weapons. It was about sending a message to China ... The U.S ... Giving U.S....
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