Trump signed a decree on the introduction of new sanctions for Russia for the poisoning of Skripale: what was invented this time

US President Donald Trump signed a decree imposing sanctions on Russia for the incident with the use of the Novichok nerve agent in the British city of Salisbury, reports NewsRu.

“US President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on Russia for using chemical weapons in the 2018 attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter,” Politico writes, citing two American officials. However, the details of the decree are not provided.

Trump explained to lawmakers that his executive order “directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to take the following actions, if necessary, to impose the sanctions described in the Chemical Weapons Act. In particular, we are talking about “obstructing the process of providing loans, financial or technical assistance to this country by international financial institutions,” TASS reports.

Julia and Sergey Skripal. Photo: frame YouTube / Russia24

In addition, the President indicates the imposition of "a prohibition on the banks of the United States from making any loans or making any credit to the Government of this country, except loans or credits for the purchase of food or other agricultural commodities or products."

The presidential decree emphasizes that it concerns the implementation of the provision of the law, which gives the executive power the choice of a number of restrictions that may be imposed on the country that violated this act.

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Earlier, the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs called on US President Donald Trump to move to the second stage of sanctions against the Russian Federation for the incident with the use of the Novichok nerve agent in the British city of Salisbury.

“We urge you to take immediate action to hold Russia accountable for its brutal use of chemical weapons in Europe,” the committee's chairman, Democrat Eliot Engel, and senior Republican Michael McCaul said in a joint letter.

The authors of the letter emphasize that Russia has not yet provided any evidence of non-use of chemical weapons, nor guarantees of participation in similar incidents.

Recall 4 March 2018, a former GRU Colonel Sergey Skripal, convicted in Russia for spying for the UK, and his daughter Julia have undergone in Salisbury, according to the British side, exposure to the military nerve agent Novichok.

In an attack on Scripale British authorities suspect Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. The Insider and Bellingcat found out that their real names are Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga, they work in the GRU. Later, the media reported on the third participant in the poisoning - GRU officer Denis Sergeev, who acted under the false name Sergei Fedotov.

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Also, Novice’s victims were Briton Don Sturges and her companion Charles Rowley, who in July 2018 found a bottle of perfume with nerve agent, which Petrov and Boshirov allegedly threw into a donation box, mixing it up with a garbage can. Sturges passed awayRowley survived.

London claims that Novichok was developed in Russia. Moscow categorically rejected all accusations, pointing out that Novichok development programs allegedly did not exist either in the USSR or in Russia. And all chemical weapons, according to Russian authorities, were destroyed in accordance with international agreements.

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The United States introduced the first package of sanctions for the poisoning of the Skripals on August 27, 2018, as part of the American Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Prevention Act of 1991. The package was relatively mild - a ban on the export of military and dual-use products to Russia (but with a number of exceptions), a ban on the purchase of weapons from Russia.

In the sanctions law, it was stated that if, within three months, the violating country does not comply with the US requirements (guaranteed cessation of the use of chemical weapons with the admission of international inspections), the President, after consulting with Congress, is obliged to impose additional sanctions, writes The Bell.

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The second package of sanctions discussed included the threat of lowering the level of bilateral diplomatic relations, or even their complete suspension, in fact a total ban on all exports to Russia of US goods except food, as well as the United States imports of Russian goods, including oil and oil products, denying the right to land in the US aircraft any airline controlled by the Russian government, blocking Washington loans to Moscow through international financial organizations.

The US administration has previously expressed the hope that, prior to the application of these restriction characterized by both sides as “draconian”, the matter will still not come to fruition. However, Trump has now had to implement some of those sanctions because US intelligence agencies have been unable to prove that Russia has stopped using chemical weapons.

It is noteworthy that 31 July Donald Trump говорил on the phone with Vladimir Putin. But whether they discussed new sanctions is unknown. Moscow reported that Trump offered Putin help in fighting forest fires, but got polite refusal.

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