“The United States is developing a plan for a potential weakening of sanctions against Russia against Donald Trump’s efforts to restore relations with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine. Source: This was reported by the Reuters agency by an American official and another person familiar with this issue, writes “European Truth” details: the White House asked the State Department and the Ministry of Finance to prepare a list of sanctions that can be softened.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: This was reported by the Reuters agency by an American official and another person familiar with this issue, writes “European Truth”
Details: The White House asked the State Department and the Ministry of Finance to prepare a list of sanctions that can be softened. This list was asked to prepare for discussion by US officials with the Russian side as part of the broad negotiations of the US administration about improving diplomatic and economic relations, sources reported.
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Sanctional agencies are now preparing proposals for the removal of sanctions from individual legal entities and individuals, including some Russian oligarchs, according to the agency’s interlocutors.
The specific White House request for such a document in recent days emphasizes the readiness of Trump and his advisers to weaken Russian sanctions as part of a potential agreement with Moscow.
Currently, it is not clear what Washington may require from the Russian Federation in exchange for the weakening of sanctions.
The White House asked officials of the State Department and the Ministry of Finance to develop a possible plan for mitigating sanctions before Trump continued his state of emergency due to the situation in Ukraine, US sources report.
The state of emergency imposes sanctions on certain assets and persons involved in the war of Russia. These measures, implemented by the administration of the then President Barack Obama, have been in force since March 2014, when Russia has annexed Ukrainian Crimea.
In January, Trump threatened to strengthen sanctions against Russia if Putin did not want to negotiate the war in Ukraine. But recently, Trump administration representatives have openly recognized the possibility of weakening sanctions against Moscow.
Finance Minister Scott Bessent, in an interview with Bloomberg Television of February 20, stated that Russia could get economic weakening – depending on how it would come to the negotiations in the coming weeks.
Trump told reporters on February 26 that Russian sanctions could be weakened “at some point.”