| Whereas the Western democracies are imposing sanctions on Tehran including multiple embargos, Iran has gradually become a favoured source of energy supplies for China, Russia and India. |
| As you said before, Mr. Chairperson, an arms trade treaty is not a mechanism for establishing embargos. |
| Because, through trade agreements and successive embargos, it's food sovereignty and security which are at stake. |
| I even have sympathy for the Chinese when they question this as a political gesture and say that, in a strategic partnership such as ours, there is no room for embargos of this kind. |
| Penal measures should also be introduced for transit countries that violate arms embargos. |
| But from there we had Watergate, stagflation, oil embargos, eroding American power in the world, growing income inequality, etc. |
