Economic sanctions can be a blunt tool of coercion.
While economic sanctions are purportedly aimed at rectifying reprehensible government policies, the main victims of such measures are innocent, civilian, populations. When economic sanctions are imposed by the Security Council of the United Nations in order to secure international peace, justice requires that the burden of such measures be equally and fairly shared by all nations and not mainly by one nation. Past economic sanctions may have caused irreparable harm to millions of innocent civilians. Such harm must be remedied. England Sort Code.