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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mariya Zaharova said in a comment posted on the Foreign Ministry website on the 20th (local time) that “the decision to impose sanctions on two Russian companies for the alleged involvement of America in hiring North Korean workers in Russia is unfortunate. ” Revealed.
Zaharova said: “As before, the United States did not present any evidence other than its usual suspicion and demanded to believe his words.” “With regard to Russia, it again committed a ‘crime’ in violation of the resolution of the UN Security Council (Security Council). Criticized,” he criticized the action of the United States.
“I firmly reject such accusations and condemn the US practice of externally applying its own legal regulations that are contrary to the universal rules of international law,” he said.
Zaharova also said: “There are well-founded concerns about whether the United States will adhere to the resolutions coordinated by the Security Council,” he said. “The clear evidence is that the United States has been approved by Security Council Resolution 2231 (the Comprehensive Joint Plan of Action, which is a nuclear deal with Iran). It is the sanctions against Iran that resumed after unilaterally withdrawing from ( JCPOA) ”, he argued.
“The baseless sanctions against our corporations were again criticized as a totally baseless discriminatory act by the US administration in a grotesque attempt to dispel public opinion from unconstructive behavior in its foreign policy.”
The US Treasury Department said the day before that it had imposed sanctions on two Russian companies.
According to the Ministry of Finance’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the additions to the specially designated sanctions list (SDN) are Cheolsan Trading, a North Korean company operating in Russia, and Mokran LLC, a construction company. Russian.
These two companies are responsible for involving, promoting or being responsible for the export of forced labor from North Korea, OFAC explained.
Cheolsan Trade is a company that manages North Korean workers in Russia and is reportedly involved in the process of obtaining work permits for North Korean workers to enter and work in Russia.
Countries that hired North Korean workers had to repatriate all of them to North Korea by December 22 last year in accordance with the UN resolution to sanction North Korea.
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