Ukraine<\/span>\u2019s President has asked the US President to designate Russia as a \u201cState Sponsor of Terrorism\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n “State Sponsors of Terrorism” is a designation given by the United States Secretary of State (the minister primarily in charge of foreign relations) to countries that <\/span>have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n The US can place four categories of sanctions on countries that are on this list<\/strong>: 1)<\/strong> restrictions on US foreign assistance, 2)<\/strong> ban on defence exports and sales, 3)<\/strong> certain controls over exports of dual-use items and 4)<\/strong> miscellaneous financial and other restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n Sanctions can also be placed on countries and persons that engage in certain trade with designated countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n As of now, there are four countries on the list of state sponsors of terrorism. They are Syria, Iran, North Korea and Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n Countries can be put and taken off the list from time to time. A country can be de-listed if it is deemed by the US to have reformed its behaviour and returned to complying with the requirements of international law and conduct or if it has undergone a change of leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Explained: What does designation as a \u2018state sponsor of terrorism\u2019 by the US means<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 16th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Ukraine\u2019s President has asked the US President to designate Russia as a \u201cState Sponsor of Terrorism\u201d. What does \u201cState Sponsors of Terrorism\u201d\u00a0means? “State Sponsors of Terrorism” is a designation given by the United States Secretary of State (the minister primarily in charge of foreign relations) to countries that have repeatedly provided… Continue reading Explained: What does designation as a \u2018state sponsor of terrorism\u2019 by the US mean?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-179971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700323918},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What does \u201c<\/b>State Sponsors of Terrorism\u201d<\/b>\u00a0means?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Which countries are currently on the terrorist designation list?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Can countries be taken off the list?\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n