Moscow-Sana
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed that imposing new international restrictions and sanctions on the DPRK is pointless.
"The policy of increasing the pressure of sanctions on the DPRK has exhausted itself at this stage, and therefore the imposition of new international restrictions is wrong and useless and has serious humanitarian consequences," Zakharova said in a statement published today on the ministry's website. The outbreak of the Corona pandemic in the country.
Zakharova added that the DPRK has suffered both because of the UN Security Council sanctions regime in force for many years, whose negative impact on its ordinary citizens has been exacerbated by illegal unilateral restrictive measures, calling for abandoning this escalation that leads to a dead end and returning to the joint search for political and diplomatic solutions to the crisis in The Korean Peninsula.
Zakharova stressed that "the security problems in the region, which concern Russia directly, cannot be solved by primitive and direct methods, accompanied by dangerous side effects on its residents."
On Monday, Russia and China vetoed the UN Security Council against a US draft resolution on expanding sanctions against the DPRK.
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