With a hard ferry

Washington expects that Russia will fully fulfill its obligations within the framework of the UN Security Council introduced by the opening of a ferry message with the DPRK. This was stated by the representative of the US State Department, Interfax reports .

“In connection with this ferry message, we note Russian obligations to fully fulfill the resolutions of 2270 and 2321 Security Councils of the UN, including the requirements to inspect all goods, including personal baggage of individual traveling to or from North Korea,” the American official said. - As the Secretary of State (Rex) Tillerson previously stated, we urge all countries to fully fulfill the UN Security Council resolutions, as well as tighten or reduce diplomatic and commercial relations with North Korea. ”

On the eve of the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Yoshihide Suga noted that they will carefully monitor how to influence the opening of a ferry message between Russia and the DPRK for the regime of sanctions. "We consider it necessary that all countries put pressure on North Korea to attract it to a dialogue. In this regard, we would like to follow how such actions of Russia will affect international efforts on the North Korean problem," he said.

The official representative of the Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the opening of a cargo -passenger ferry message with the DPRK does not fall under the sanctions of the UN Security Council. In turn, the Minister of Development of the Far East, Alexander Galushka, told reporters that Russia will cooperate with the DPRK "in volumes and a framework that the UN Security Council resolution does not contradict."

On Thursday morning, the Mangyongbong-92 ferment is a steam with steam to the port of Vladivostok. He delivered a small group of tourists from the PRC. Earlier, passenger ships from the DPRK did not go to Russia.

On May 5, the House of US Representatives adopted a bill on new sanctions against the DPRK. In particular, the document prohibits the courts of the DPRK and countries that do not comply with the UN Security Council resolution in its regard to be in American waters and ports of the United States. For this, it is supposed to identify violations in the ports of Vladivostok, finds and Vanino in Russia, Syrian ports in Latakia and Tartus, two ports in China and the International Airport in Tehran.

In addition, the bill proposes to give the US border guards and customs officers the right to inspect cargoes on ships that have passed the ports that have repeatedly violated the sanctions, as well as cargoes on sea and aircraft, which visited the DPRK ports and airports during the year.

The head of the Committee on Defense and Security of the Council, Viktor Ozerov, called the bill "absurd." According to Ozerov, Russia "not only in its ports, but also in territorial waters without permission." The senator assured that Moscow is fulfilling the UN Security Council on sanctions against the DPRK. In turn, a member of the defense committee of the Upper House of Parliament, Alexei Pushkov, said that Russia would not allow control over its ports, calling the bill a "military time" and "gross violation of international law".

On March 21, it was reported that Washington was preparing a new package of sanctions against North Korea due to the ongoing development of nuclear weapons and delivery products. The American authorities considered the opportunity to turn off the DPRK from the global financial system, as well as introduce restrictions against a number of organizations and banks located in China, providing foreign trade in the DPRK.