US, UK Hold First Strategic Sanctions Dialogue

The U.S. and U.K. discussed various sanctions issues July 19 during the first U.S.-U.K. Strategic Sanctions Dialogue in Washington, including various “priorities across geographic and thematic sanctions regimes,” the State Department said. The agency said the two countries “continue to intensify our coordination on United Nations and autonomous sanctions regimes” and discussed ways to coordinate the measures with other countries to “show collective leadership on the targeted, legitimate, and effective use of sanctions to tackle threats to international peace and security.”