Treasury Discusses Sanctions Impact on Humanitarian Aid With NGOs
The Treasury Department met with non-governmental organizations last week amid criticism that U.S. sanctions are unintentionally affecting humanitarian aid shipments (see 2105260047). Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo, who is leading a review of the agency’s sanctions programs (see 2105270041), met with 11 NGOs to ensure sanctions are “thoughtfully calibrated to target malign actors and activity while balancing essential humanitarian activities,” Treasury said May 27. The agency is also “closely evaluating” feedback on how sanctions are affecting human rights, corruption and persecuted minority and diaspora communities.
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The meeting, part of Adeyemo’s sanctions review, will help the agency identify “opportunities for improvements so that Treasury’s implementation and enforcement of sanctions is relevant, rigorous, and fit to purpose.” Treasury said it is also gathering feedback from the private sector, Congress, foreign partners and other U.S. government agencies. “The meeting was part of a robust series of engagements with internal and external stakeholders to develop a fulsome understanding of the expectations and impacts of the gamut of U.S. economic and financial sanctions and ensure a diverse set of views is taken into account,” the agency said.