U.S. comes to Russia with ‘absurd’ request for more sanctions against North Korea, Georgiy Toloraya of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Sputnik on Monday.
Given the US approach to its relations with Russia, it is “absurd” for Washington to expect Moscow’s support for its sanctions plan for North Korea, told Toloraya.
The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on a revised US-drafted resolution to impose new sanctions on North Korea over its largest ever nuclear test just over a week ago, diplomats say.
According to the diplomats, the 15 Security Council members will vote later on Monday on the watered-down resolution, which no longer proposes blacklisting the North’s leader Kim Jong-un and reduces sanctions on the country’s oil and gas sectors, Reuters reported.
The initial draft had proposed a “progressive” oil embargo on Pyongyang, and called for a travel ban and asset freeze against Kim, along with four other North Korean officials, as well as restrictions on the country’s exports of textiles and the hiring of its laborers abroad.
