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EU Extends Sanctions Relating to Nicaragua, Chemical Weapons

The European Union extended by a year its sanctions regimes relating to human rights violations in Nicaragua and the proliferation of chemical weapons, the European Council said Oct. 11. The Nicaragua sanctions apply to 14 individuals and were imposed in…

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2019 due to the “deterioriating political and social situation” in the Central American nation. The chemical weapons sanctions apply to 15 individuals and two entities and are meant to back the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction.