Russia prepares unexpected response to US sanctions

  24 October 2016    Read: 1044
Russia prepares unexpected response to US sanctions
Russia has devised a series of asymmetric measures to be taken should the United States tighten up sanctions, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at a meeting of the Federation Council’s international affairs committee, which discussed the bill on the suspension of the plutonium disposal agreement with the United States.
"The US policy of sanctions towards Russia has continued for a long time. We have used this period to do some research and to reserve a series of measures that might be used asymmetrically, if the regime of sanctions is tightened further," TASS cited him as saying.

"The document implementation is suspended amid new circumstances in the relations of the sides," Ryabkov said presenting the document at the committee’s meeting.

"From the international and legal viewpoint, the array of steps taken by the US led to a drastic change in the circumstances that existed at the moment when the deal was signed," the diplomat explained. "This wording fits the provisions of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and allows suspending the effect of the agreement based on the convention."

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