Diplomatic sanctions
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Diplomatic sanctions are actions taken by countries against others, either unilaterally or multilaterally, and are generally considered to be of two forms:
Economic sanctions can vary from imposing import duties on goods from, or blocking the export of on certain goods to, the target country, to a full naval blockade of its ports in effort to verify, and curb or block specified imported goods.
Similarly, military sanctions can range from carefully-targeted airborne assaults of bombers to invasion and occupation. A less aggressive form of Military Sanctions could be the 15 year embargo on sales of F-16 fighter/bomber aircraft by the United States to Pakistan which ran from 1990 to 2005 in response to Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons[1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4382735.stm).