On Wednesday 8 May 2024, the UK Government hosted a senior US
Government delegation for the second US-UK Strategic Sanctions
Dialogue.
Talks, which took place in London and followed the inaugural
Dialogue held in Washington DC in July 2023, delivered on the
commitment under the 2023 Atlantic
Declaration for a Twenty-First Century US-UK Economic
Partnership to strengthen coordination on sanctions and export
controls. This brought together both countries' departments and
agencies for strategic discussions on priorities across
geographic and thematic sanctions and export controls regimes.
The UK delegation was led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and
Development Office, and included senior officials from His
Majesty's Treasury, and the Department for Business and Trade.
The US delegation was led by the State Department and included
senior officials from the US Department of the Treasury and
Department of Commerce.
The United States and the United Kingdom reaffirmed that
sanctions and export controls are essential tools of national
security policy. The delegations discussed the uses of targeted,
coordinated sanctions and export control measures to deter and
disrupt malign activity and to defend international norms.
In response to Russia's war against Ukraine, together with our
allies and partners, we have imposed unprecedented costs on the
Kremlin through sanctions and export controls. These measures are
starving Russia's military of essential components and
technology, along with other items, and constraining Putin's
ability to wage war on Ukraine. We will continue to work with
allies to restrict sources of Russian revenue, including from
services and key commodities such as energy and metals that allow
Russia to fight. Beyond Russia, the United States and the United
Kingdom reaffirmed our shared commitment to opposing those who
threaten peace, security, and stability in the Middle East,
reflected in recent coordinated actions targeting Iranian malign
actors, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders and
financiers, and those enabling Houthi Red Sea attacks. We are
committed to holding to account those responsible for conducting
or supporting terrorist and other destabilising activities in the
Middle East.
The United States and the United Kingdom continue to intensify
our coordination on United Nations and autonomous sanctions
regimes, bilaterally and with other partners. This includes
action to promote accountability for human rights violations and
abuses, tackle corruption, counter terrorism, and weapons
proliferation, and target cyber-criminal networks.
Across our programmes, we commit to continue to work together and
with allies to ensure the effectiveness of our sanctions and
export control measures. We will continue to collaborate to
counter circumvention occurring in third country jurisdictions to
strengthen our measures in support of shared national security
and foreign policy goals.
