The Russian Foreign Minister denounces the US extraterritorial laws used, according to him, to subject third countries and their trading partners to economic sanctions.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was the guest of the show News on Rossia Channel, August 22. The interview was an opportunity to discuss the measures imposed by the United States around the world via extraterritorial laws, that is to say national laws whose effects apply to a foreign country – by unilateral decision of the United States.
According to Sergey Lavrov, the US administration recently adopted a number of measures aimed at shirking international multilateral obligations: “The phenomenon of extraterritorial sanctions is part of this series. When the United States decides that China is a threat because it sells too much to the United States and buys too little, the Americans impose restrictions on imports from China. “
This policy of economic pressure also targets Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela and manifests itself through sanctions imposed on Iran, “although it does what it has accepted within the framework of the Vienna Agreement on Iranian nuclear power” qualified as a “bad deal” by Donald Trump and from which he had withdrawn the United States in May 2018. In addition, the United States does not hesitate to threaten third countries by subjecting them to the injunction not to “trade with the states that the United States wants to isolate, ”continues Sergey Lavrov.
The minister also denounces the American rulers who announced that they “would not honor their obligations. And the obligations were not to impose sanctions against Iran, to lift existing sanctions and to allow Iran to participate fully in international trade and economic exchanges ”. “Paradoxical and clumsy,” Sergey Lavrov concludes.
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