Working Group on General Issues on Sanctions

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Major initiatives 

Reports and other substantive papers

Copenhagen Round Table on the United Nations Sanctions in the Case of the Former Yugoslavia (24-25 June 1996) - Report (S/1996/776)
(First) Expert Seminar on Targeting UN Financial Sanctions (17-19 March 1998, Interlaken, Switzerland) - Report
Towards Smarter More Effective United Nations Sanctions (New York, 7 December 1998) - Report on a Symposium on Security Council Sanctions
Can Sanctions be Smarter? Report of a conference sponsored by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK
(Second) Interlaken Seminar on Targeting UN Financial Sanctions (29-31 March 1999), Interlaken, Switzerland) - Report
UN Sanctions: Problems and Prospects (April 1999) - Paper prepared by the Strategic Planning Unit, Executive Office of the Secretary-General
Smart Sanctions, The Next Step:  Arms Embargoes and Travel Sanctions (Bonn, 21-23 November 1999)
Smart Sanctions, The Next Step:  Arms Embargoes and Travel Sanctions (Berlin, 03-05 December 2000)
A Brief Overview of Security Council Applied Sanctions - Informal background paper prepared by the UN Sanctions Secretariat, DPA
(January 2000) [ version] - (January 2001)
[ version]
  The Experience of the United Nations in Administering Arms Embargoes and Travel Sanctions - Informal background paper prepared by the UN Sanctions Secretariat, DPA
(January 2000) [ version] - (January 2001) [ version]
Security Council resolutions 733(1992) and 751(1992): Arms Embargo on Somalia - (January 2000) - Informal background paper prepared by the UN Sanctions Secretariat, DPA
"Making Targeted Sancitons Effective" - (February 2003) - Final Report of the Stockholm Process

Bibliography
Sanctions: The Current Debate (March 1999) - A summary of selected reading, prepared by Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Updated January 2001
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