Monday 5 October 2015

Russia has violated international law: Obama

Washington, March 4, 2014

President Barack Obama said that Russia violated international law with its military intervention in Ukraine and warned that the US government would look at a series of economic and diplomatic sanctions to isolate Moscow.






In the meantime, the US is preparing to impose sanctions on Russia over the intervention although no decisions have yet been made, the State Department said. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US has a broad range of options.





That move will affect a meeting planned in Washington with Russian, US, EU and Kazakhstan officials about Kazakhstan's accession to the World Trade Organization. Russia and the EU would now not take part.



As the administration sought to rally international pressure against Russia, US lawmakers were considering imposing sanctions on Russia's banks and freezing assets of Russian public institutions and private investors in response to events in Ukraine, one US Senator said.

The lawmaker, Democrat Chris Murphy, warned that in order to be effective, US sanctions would need to be matched by similar moves by Europe.


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