"The
United States can be described as a threat to multilateralism,
international law and the United Nations," Morales wrote on
Twitter.
Bolivian
President Evo Morales on Sunday slammed renewed U.S. sanctions
against Russia, affirming that his country rejects them.
The
Indigenous socialist leader announced his disapproval through his
Twitter account. “The United States again seeks to impose
unilateral sanctions against Russia. They contradict international
law. Bolivia rejects them,” Morales tweeted. “With these
types of sanctions, the U.S. can be described as a threat to
multilateralism, international law and the United Nations,” he
added in a second tweet.
The
sanctions were implemented to punish Russia for so-called attempts to
"destabilize" Ukraine and alleged "interference"
in Syrian affairs. It includes a provision that allows Congress to
stop any effort by U.S. President Donald Trump to ease existing
sanctions on Russia.
The package
has been described as the most severe since the end of the Cold War,
with Russia being labeled a “hostile regime” along with
Washington's traditional group of so-called “rogue states,”
including Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or
DPRK.
The White
House reported that the president was "satisfied" with the
draft and intends to sign it soon. With the sanctions in place,
Trump’s plans to reconcile relations with Moscow will become
increasingly difficult.
"We
were waiting for quite a long time that maybe something would change
for the better, were holding out hope that the situation would change
somehow. But it appears that even if it changes someday it will not
change soon," Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday.
The Russian
president announced his intention to expel 755 U.S. diplomatic staff,
seize two U.S. diplomatic properties and possibly impose more severe
measures. "Because more than 1,000 workers - diplomats and
support staff - were working and are still working in Russia, 755
must stop their activity in the Russian Federation," he
said.
Moscow said
on Friday that the United States has until Sept. 1 to reduce its
diplomatic staff in Russia to 455 people, matching the number of
Russian diplomats left in the United States, after Washington
expelled 35 Russian officials in December.
The move
will be accompanied by the seizure of two diplomatic properties,
which must be vacated by August 1 – a move intended to mirror the
seizure of two Russian diplomatic compounds in the United States by
the administration of former President Barack Obama.
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