MOSCOW, January 20 The Russian government approved the denunciation of the agreement with Great Britain on the right to engage in fishing in the waters of the Barents Sea, the Cabinet of Ministers reported on its website.
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» Government decision: to approve the draft federal law «On the denunciation of the Agreement between the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on fisheries» and submit it to the State Duma in the prescribed manner,” the press service noted.
The bill provides for the denunciation of the agreement under which fishing vessels assigned to British ports could fish in the waters of the Barents Sea.< br />
The government noted that when creating the document, they took into account the UK’s decision of March 15, 2022 to terminate the most favored nation regime in bilateral trade.
London introduced restrictions against Moscow on February 24, 2022, and then expanded them many times. As of the end of December, there were about 1.8 thousand Russians on the sanctions list. As Ambassador to Britain Andrei Kelin noted, restrictions on most of them were introduced without any evidence and it would be correct to challenge them in court.