A New Sanctions Approach for Humanitarian Assistance
The Lawfare Podcast
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How Do You Think the Treasury Department Will Interpret the Security Council Resolution 1267?
The language in the U.S. Security Council resolution is fairly broad as Rachel just quoted, obviously applying that specific facts requires a degree of interpretation and there's these countervailing pressures of saying, hey, don't go too far with this. We have to keep it within bounds. How do you anticipate the Treasury Department, I guess, in particular, interpreting and applying this through the lens of its own license? Where do you think they are going to draw the line? And how does that interplay with the United Nations? Are we likely to see UN sanctions committees that tend to administer different sanctions programs defining what that means for their individual programs? Is this going to be an issue that
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