Cities of the world. Pyongyang. File photoMOSCOW, May 28.Moscow proposes to abandon the dead-end path of sanctions pressure on the DPRK, to solve the problem through diplomacy, according to the commentary of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, published on the website of the department. The Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that earlier the UN Security Council voted on a draft resolution prepared by the United States, aimed at further tightening sanctions against the DPRK. Russia voted against this document, as did China. As a result, the resolution was not adopted. «We sincerely invite everyone to abandon the escalation leading to a dead end and return to the joint search for political and diplomatic solutions. This is the only possible way to reduce the level of confrontation and unacceptable risks, strengthen confidence and, ultimately, long-term settlement of the situation around the Korean Peninsula, taking into account the interests of all parties involved,» the commentary says. The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that the very fact that Washington put forward an initiative in the UN Security Council was evidence of the continued depletion of the political and diplomatic arsenal of hardliners, through whose fault any positive moves around the Korean Peninsula and new rounds of confrontation are being provoked.» We are convinced that at this stage the policy of increasing sanctions pressure on the DPRK has exhausted itself. The introduction of new international restrictions is erroneous and unpromising, and from the point of view of their humanitarian consequences — simply inhumane, especially especially in the context of the spread of coronavirus infection,” the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized.Nebenzya: imposing new sanctions against the DPRK against the backdrop of COVID-19 is irresponsibleAccording to Zakharova, the DPRK is «exhausted» by the UN Security Council sanctions regime that has existed for many years, the negative impact of which on ordinary North Koreans is repeatedly aggravated by illegitimate unilateral measures. «Security problems in the region that directly affect Russia cannot be resolved in primitive and straightforward ways, accompanied by serious side effects for the population,» the ministry added. On Thursday, Russia and China vetoed a US resolution to increase sanctions against the DPRK. The remaining members of the UN Security Council voted in favor. Earlier, the UN General Assembly decided that in each case of a veto in the Security Council, it would meet within 10 days to discuss the issue on which the blocking was applied. The draft US resolution in the UN Security Council, as a punishment for the next DPRK missile launches, proposed to reduce the allowable volumes of oil supplies and oil products to North Korea, to ban the supply of tobacco to the country. In addition, the text contained the name of the person, as well as the names of a number of entities whose assets were proposed to be frozen.China would consider it useful to lift part of the sanctions against the DPRK, said the envoy of the People's Republic of ChinaRussia and China considered such a resolution counterproductive and could only exacerbate tensions in the region. Chen Un's lockdown has been introduced in all cities and counties to stop the «malicious pandemic» and «eradicate the source of infection» as soon as possible. The DPRK health authorities are in-depth study of fever patients and convalescents across the country to determine the characteristics of the virus. The production of medicines and test reagents is accelerating. More than a million medical workers, teachers and students of medical institutions have been mobilized, they are conducting examinations, treatment, and disinfection. There are 10,000 mobile anti-epidemic units operating across the country. According to the Central Committee, the military is also actively helping to fight the pandemic. Together with the authorities, they set up 50 new pharmacies in Pyongyang, military doctors supply medicines to other localities, treat at home and in pharmacies, at factories and enterprises where production needs to continue.
Nebenzya said new sanctions against North Korea are useless
