{"id":42229,"date":"2022-03-07T15:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T06:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/new-zealand-to-ramp-up-russia-sanctions-with-first-of-its-kind-law"},"modified":"2022-03-07T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T06:25:25","slug":"new-zealand-to-ramp-up-russia-sanctions-with-first-of-its-kind-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42229","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to ramp up Russia sanctions with \u2018first of its kind\u2019 law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill would allow government to freeze assets and also prevent Russian yachts and aircraft from entering New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will rush a bill through parliament this week that will significantly ramp up its sanctions against Russia and its oligarchs, in line with its western allies.<\/p>\n<p>The Russia Sanctions Bill is the \u201cfirst of its kind\u201d in New Zealand, which has no legal framework for passing broader, unilateral sanctions and usually only does so when called on by the UN security council. As a permanent member of the body, Moscow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/united-nations-russia-ukraine-vote\">has vetoed any action against it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/new-zealand-to-ramp-up-russia-sanctions-with-first-of-its-kind-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill would allow government to freeze assets and also prevent Russian yachts and aircraft from entering New ZealandNew Zealand will rush a bill through parliament this week that will significantly ramp up its sanctions against Russia and its oligarchs,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,56,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-new-zealand","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42230,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42229\/revisions\/42230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}