State flags of Russia and China. File photoUN, May 27.Russia and China vetoed in the United Nations Security Council a draft US resolution on strengthening sanctions against the DPRK, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Thirteen members of the UN Security Council voted for the adoption of the document. North Korea on March 24, as well as a series of other recent ballistic missile tests in North Korea. The project referred to the text of Resolution 2397 of 2017, which stated: if the DPRK conducts a new nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile capable of delivering a charge to intercontinental range, or a test leading to the development of such a missile, the Security Council will take action to further restrict oil exports to North Korea. The sponsors of the resolution blocked today proposed to reduce the amount of crude oil allowed to Pyongyang. If before that the UN Security Council allowed four million barrels, or 525,000 tons of crude oil to be supplied to North Korea during the year, then the current project reduced this volume to three million barrels, or 393,750 tons. Previously, the Security Council allowed exports to North Korea up to 500,000 tons per year barrels of refined petroleum products per year (including diesel fuel and kerosene), the new document proposed to reduce the volume to 375 thousand barrels or 46,875 tons. />China would consider it useful to lift part of the sanctions against the DPRK, the Permanent Representative of the PRC said. If the resolution was adopted, North Korea would have to stop exporting mineral fuels, petroleum products and products of their distillation, bituminous substances, mineral wax, watches and spare parts for them. All states would have to ban the purchase of these items from the DPRK. The text also stated that all UN member states should stop the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of all tobacco and tobacco products to North Korea. In addition, the draft resolution prohibited the purchase from the DPRK or the facilitation of the purchase of services related to information and communication technologies. In addition, the text proposed an asset freeze and a travel ban on Kim Soo-il. The authors claim that this is «a representative of the Department of Military Industry located in Vietnam, which oversees the development of ballistic missiles in the DPRK.» The drafters of the resolution also called for the freezing of the assets of the North Korean cyber structure Lazarus Group and two companies: Korea Namgang Trading Corporation and Haegumgang Trading Corporation.
Nebenzya declared the new sanctions against the DPRK useless
