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Hugo Rodriguez, undersecretary Deputy of Western Hemisphere Affairs of Department of State, warned yes Mexico buys helicopters from Russia could be subject to sanctions under US law.
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Senior official made these claims during a hearing at Foreign Affairs subcommittee of the House of Representatives convened to evaluate US security assistance to Mexico.
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“The Russian Chancellor Sergei Lavrov, ad recently that Mexico was in conversations for buy helicopters from russian manufacturing. If that happened, didwould run the risk of sanctions by the United States under Section 231 of the CAATSA Act? ”asked the Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips, representative of the state of Minnesota.
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Phillips was referring to the Law to counter adversaries through sanctions (known as CAATSA by its acronym in English), promulgated by the president Donald Trump in August from 2017 to hold responsible Russia, Iran Y North Korea for their assumptions “destabilizing actions”To the detriment of the United States and its allies.
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“We read it with great interest and we are worried”, Rodriguez replied about the announcement of the Russian Foreign Minister. “According to our initial investigation, it seems that such sale would cause potential penalties under (the law) CAATSA, ”he added.
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“¿We have left in Clear our position to our Mexican friends? ”Phillips stressed.
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“I believe that we did it at embassy level. But at the Washington level we have raised this as an area of concern with our counterparts in Mexico City to bring it to the government of Mexico“He added.
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Sergei Lavrov He told a press conference last Thursday in Mexico City, after meeting with his Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard, that he government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador evaluate proposals for the acquisition of a batch of at least 50 military helicopters from Rosoboronexport, the Russian state agency for the sale of defense products.
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“The Mexican part is considering concrete proposals of Rosoboronexport on the helicopter supply”, Informed Lavrov. The government from Mexico has not officially pronounced about.
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Mexico has military ties since many years with Russia and the Mexican armed forces use an extensive fleet of helicopters manufactured in that country.
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In 2018, the then elected president López Obrador said would cancel the purchase planned of eight military helicopters from your main security partner, U.S, as part of the measurements from reduction from cost and of austerity.
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He explained that adopted that measure since said agreement, reached by the administration of then President Enrique Peña Nieto and to which the United States government had given the green light, would mean USD 1,200 million expense and Mexico I couldn’t make that expense.
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“We know about the claim to buy eight artillery helicopters for the (Secretariat of) Navy of Mexico, to the United States government for a total value of 25,000 million weights, that purchase se will cancel”Said López Obrador then.
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The eleven from January from 2019, the head of the federal executive announced his plan to sell the flotilla about 80 aircraft what were they occupied by the federal government and which will be exhibited in Santa Lucia, where the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport is being built.
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Last October, AMLO revealed that among the governments from Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and Enrique Peña grandson I know allocated 100 billion pesos for the purchase of air transport for the use of public servants
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The Lavrov announcement it happened in the framework of a tour by Latin America that included Cuba and Venezuela. The Chancellors Marcelo Ebrard and Sergei Lavrov I know gathered last Thursday in the Mexican capital where also they boarded the access of the tequila and the steel to the russian market.
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“We approach from the access of tequila and steel to both markets, the reactivation of the bilateral consultation mechanisms until the disarmament, the Un, and the CELAC, he wrote on his Twitter account, Ebrard Casaubón.
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