Since its establishment in 2000, the Working Group on Sanctions had been reviewing the working methods of sanctions regimes, such as procedures for listing, de listing, and waivers, in an attempt to develop a set of recommendations to the Council.

It expressed solidarity with Member States that are affected by such unilateral sanctions and requested that they be lifted immediately.

The most common difficulty cited concerning implementation relates to the List.

As an example of the evolution of targeted sanctions, lists of individuals and entities drawn up by sanctions committees play an increasingly important role in achieving the objectives of targeted sanctions.

That situation made it urgent to examine in depth all forms of unilateral sanctions which individual countries imposed on third countries outside the United Nations.

The Team regards the Consolidated List as the basis of the sanctions programme.

The list of the UNSC sanction committee should be regularly reviewed and updated.

Some countries say that they are hesitating to submit names for listing because they allege the system lacks a robust de listing mechanism.

Recommendations were also made to improve the monitoring of the effects of sanctions and to ensure that fair and clear procedures exist for placing individuals and entities on sanctions lists and for removing them, as well as for granting humanitarian exemptions.

The proper implementation of the sanctions regime depends on Member States circulating the Consolidated List to all appropriate authorities.

It also emphasized that security sector reform should include the rehabilitation of the judicial, penal and immigration sectors and called for the adoption of clear, well defined and transparent criteria to guide individuals' inclusion in or exclusion from the sanctions list.

The adoption of revised guidelines would assist the committees concerned in managing targeted sanctions lists in a uniform and transparent way.

Thirdly, on the subject of Security Council sanctions, the procedures for establishing and revising the lists of targeted individuals and entities must be improved.

(a) Geographical constituencies 24 members were returned by direct elections based on universal suffrage, through the list voting system, which is a form of proportional representation system.

Thirdly, when sanctions regimes adopted by the Security Council include lists of individuals or entities, the sanctions committees should establish precise procedures to allow for reviews to be conducted regarding those individuals or entities which claim to be placed or kept wrongly on such lists.

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Rejection of the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States on the Syrian Arab Republic

The report equally falls short in proposing ways of addressing unilateral sanctions.

881 2002) to implement the sanctions, naming those on the Consolidated List.

We also call upon the Security Council and the Secretary General to ensure that fair and transparent procedures exist for placing individuals and entities on sanctions lists and for removing them.

This annex does not contain any entries as the competent Security Council sanctions committee has not yet issued a list of names.

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Rejection of the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States on the Syrian Arab Republic

Strongly condemns and rejects all types of unilateral coercive measures including unilateral economic sanctions and consider them as null and void.

Furthermore, these local courts would judge UN listings based on criminal standards of evidence, despite the fact that the List is not a criminal list.

3. The unilateral sanctions applied by the United States were a source of concern for the developing countries.

Targeted sanctions lists have been drawn up by and continue to play an important role in the work of the Al Qaida and Taliban sanctions Committee, the Liberia sanctions Committee and the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003), which is concerned with individuals and entities associated with the former Government of Iraq.

(a) Deciding to impose concrete and targeted sanctions against the offending parties named in the monitoring lists

A. Listing of Parties

Several speakers expressed support for the progress the Council had made in its sanctions regimes over the past few years and supported the concept of targeted sanctions.

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Imposing unilateral economic sanctions against developing countries hinders free trade and investment.

We recognize that recent sanctions regimes provide improved safeguards with regard to the rights of listed individuals or entities, and we suggest that the relevant counter terrorism and sanctions committees update older sanctions regimes according to the newer, better standards.

Recalling that certain multilateral treaties provide for the creation of lists of conciliators and arbitrators for use by States in the settlement of their disputes,

Clearly, sanctions can be properly implemented only if Member States are certain about the identity of a listed individual or entity.

The key issues on which consensus could not be reached were the following the duration of sanctions, i.e., whether sanctions should be, in principle, time limited the related issue of criteria for lifting sanctions Committee decision making (whether by consensus or simple majority) and addressing the concerns of third States adversely affected by sanctions.

In the Mazar I Sharif forums alone, 500 women are involved in tailoring, 1,000 in embroidery, 900 in kitchen gardening and 25 in soap making.

The Team recommends that the Committee remind States that this is entirely within the scope of the sanctions, which covers assets owned or controlled directly or indirectly by listed persons or on their behalf .

Listing especially of groups clearly has an important political and psychological impact.

Other cases have been filed or decided in several other countries that, while not challenging the sanctions, involve individuals or entities on the Consolidated List.

No lists of speakers are maintained for the round tables.

Given the distinct mandates of sanctions committees with respect to the designation of targeted individuals and entities, it is important that relevant sanctions committees continue to address issues related to listing and delisting, as well as sanctions exemptions, through the adoption of new or revised guidelines.

A better understanding of sanctions lists, and of their potential and limitations, is required at the level of sanctions committees and States.

Since Resolution 1373 does not establish a list of terrorists, the EU has developed its own system in order to list terrorist individuals, groups or entities not on the UN's 1267 list.

That would enhance the credibility of the sanctions regime, and it would increase the regime's effectiveness by providing additional safeguards so as to avoid keeping on the lists people who do not belong there.