Topic: 2026 – Implementation of Sanctions
Country: Peru
Delegate Name: Sarah Abraham
Sarah Abraham
Peru
Implementation Of Sanctions
Sanctions are implemented in order for oppressive governments to reflect and end their ways, through blocking interaction between other nations in a way that makes development unsustainable for the corrupt nation. This is vital for the UN because it ensures that countries that are acting in a way unsuitable will be accounted for their crimes. This has been an impactful strategy but has flaws because of how citizens are also affected by the ban of goods. Sanctions, if held for long enough, limits a nation’s resources which is unfair for the people living in a tainted government because of them having to pay the price. For example, if all oil producing countries agreed to discontinue trading with a country because of its government, citizens will have to live without using oil and it will give a huge disadvantage to their daily lives because of the ban directly impacting them. Since this is not the impact the UN wants for countries, we need to discover a new system to give the governments a consequence but to leave their citizens alone.
Peru has not experienced sanctions from any countries, but as a delegation we can recognize how sanctions on other countries impact their livelihood. For a recent example, the EU and the United States had implemented sanctions on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, which led to their economy shrinking from their GDP declining each year since the sanction from their oil revenue dropping significantly. This has given Russia troubles to fund the conflict between Ukraine. With so many resources going to the war and Russia’s funds constantly decreasing, Russians get impacted by these decisions because of economic decline causing issues with employment and funds for essential things like housing.
On behalf of the Delegation of Peru, the sanctions should go through changes to make it more ideal for the citizens and to keep them protected while mainly the government is the one facing the repercussions. Sanctions should develop a more complex strategy for countries to actually go through change instead of taking the hit from sanctions by communicating with the country involved and giving the country the option to change their ways and if they fail to do this incentive they will be given a sanction which will be called out to the public and citizens of their nation. The country that is targeted should also be provided essential items for their citizens so they can live comfortably and the sanction should not affect the economy as heavily and could shift its decision more heavily on people with elite positions in the government. For citizens , the country should be given a plan on how to lift this sanction so the economy will not be suffering for too long to mark a large negative impact on the people and the plan should be efficient and achievable for the country. To implement this, we could use article 39 because countries being impacted from sanctions typically have been disrupting peace and from using this article we can give incentives for the countries to sort things out for themselves and if this is not completed we can decide what measures can be taken to give consequences to the state.
Works Cited
Team, Enough. “Sanctions Strategies: How to Improve Sanctions Effectiveness with Strategic Planning.” The Enough Project, 22 Nov. 2019,
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“Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs — Codification Division Publications.” Legal.un.org, legal.un.org/repertory/art39.shtml.
European Council. “Impact of Sanctions on the Russian Economy.” European Council, European Council, 12 Oct. 2023, www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/impact-sanctions-russian-economy/
