Collated UK & Isle of Man material on Ivory Coast sanctions
HM Treasury
Since 2007 responsibility for the administration of financial sanctions in the UK has rested with the Treasury. Their website includes a section on the various regimes which are subject to sanctions. Within that section specific pages list the sanctions prescribed by the UK in respect of the Ivory Coast but also re-publishes material from the United Nations and the European Union relevant to those sanctions.
- Latest notice from HM Treasury regarding Ivory Coast sanctions http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/fin_sanc_notice_ivory_20110117.pdf
- Sanctions targets – the latest published list of individual sanctions targets within the Ivory Coast http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/ivory_coast.htm
- HM Treasury page on Ivory Coast http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/fin_sanctions_ivorycoast.htm
- Overview on HM Treasury and Financial Sanctions http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/financialsanctions
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The UK's Foreign & Commonwealth office website provides additional overview of the sanctions in place including links to the UK legislation enforcing these sanctions and information on the penalty for breach of those laws.
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/what-we-do/services-we-deliver/export-controls-sanctions/country-listing/ivory-coastIsle of Man
Sanctions information from the government of the Isle of Man
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