FACTBOX: Sanctions on Zimbabwe

(Reuters) - The United States will bring up the issue of further sanctions against Zimbabwe in the United Nations Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday.

Below are details of sanctions and restrictions already in place against Zimbabwe and other measures that could be considered.

VISA BANS AND ASSET FREEZES:

-- The European Union imposed a visa ban on President Robert Mugabe and 19 of his top officials in 2002 because of the way Zimbabwe treated observers sent to monitor presidential elections.

-- That has now been expanded to more than 100 of Mugabe's closest aides and family.

-- The European Union has also frozen the overseas assets of the same list of Zimbabweans who are subject to its visa ban.

-- The United States first imposed sanctions in March 2003 and later widened them to apply to a total of about 250 people accused of undermining democracy.

-- The U.S. sanctions also bar Americans from engaging in any transactions or dealings with them.

ARMS EMBARGOES:

-- The European Union has an embargo on the sale and supply of arms and technical advice and of equipment which could be used for internal repression in Zimbabwe.

-- The embargo also prohibits technical and financial assistance related to military activities.

-- The United States has a ban on transfers of defense items and services, and a suspension of non-humanitarian government-to-government assistance.

-- The United States welcomed an idea from Britain for a full arms embargo.

-- A shipment of Chinese arms bound for Zimbabwe was recalled in April after port workers in the region refused to unload it and Western countries urged a stop to arms supplies.

ISOLATION:

-- The Commonwealth group of mainly former British colonies suspended Zimbabwe in early 2002 on the grounds that Mugabe had rigged his re-election and persecuted his opponents.