The international sanctions in force against North Korea are counterproductive and have a negative impact on the socio-economic situation in that country and on the security situation in the region. This is stated in a position of the Russian Foreign Ministry from Wednesday, quoted by "Interfax".
"We can only say about these sanctions that they do not bring any benefit, hinder the socio-economic development of the DPRK and have the most negative impact on the population of this country," said during a briefing the spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Ministry Maria Zakharova.
According to her "Russia in the UN Security Council raises the issue of the futility and counterproductiveness of these sanctions with all directness, trying to convey to colleagues the simple idea of the futility of maintaining the sanctions regime in its current rigid form, suppression of any incentives for the negotiation process and the reduction of confrontation around the Korean Peninsula".
"Sanctions do not make the situation in the region safer, to begin with they do not set a specific, predictable time horizon for them, which would be accompanied by the restoration of confidence and consideration of the legitimate interests of the Korean people. in search now", noted the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Zakharova noted that the result of such steps "should be an honest political process, and not some kind of "smoke screen", behind which the same ambitions of Washington and its allies directed against Pyongyang are hidden.
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We remind you that relations between Moscow and Pyongyang strengthened after the visit of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the Far East of Russia last year.
In March, Russia vetoed the annual renewal of a panel of experts that monitors the implementation of UN sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
The US has accused North Korea of transferring weapons to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine. Both Moscow and Pyongyang have denied the accusations but pledged last year to deepen military ties.