§ Mr. MaudeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the effects of the embargo on(a) Serbia and (b) Montenegro. [118281]
§ Mr. VazA number of sanctions measures are in place against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). United Nations Security Council resolution 1160 (1998) imposed an arms embargo on the FRY. The EU has imposed a number of measures on the FRY, including an arms embargo, a ban on the sale or supply of equipment which might be used for internal repression or terrorism, a ban on the sale and supply of petroleum and petroleum products, financial sanctions, a ban on flights and a targeted visa ban. These measures have included humanitarian exemptions where appropriate. Montenegro and Kosovo have been exempted from the flight ban and oil embargo, and from some aspects of financial sanctions. The flight ban on the remainder of the FRY has been suspended until the end of August.
Sanctions have put pressure on and isolated the Milosevic regime and its associates, and have limited Milosevic's ability to build up weaponry for use for external aggression or internal repression. Humanitarian exemptions and the targeting of sanctions measures on the regime have been designed to minimise the effect of sanctions on the general public of the FRY.