Russia, China Block US Bid for North Korea Sanctions

TEHRAN (Defapress)- The US Treasury last week asked a UN sanctions committee to impose an assets freeze on Agrosoyuz Commercial Bank for allegedly helping North Korea evade restrictions on financial transactions, press tv reported.

It also targeted the deputy representative of North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank and two North Korean entities.

Russia rejected the allegations against Russia's Agrosoyuz Commercial Bank, saying there was not "sufficient information".

"We would like to underline that designation requests submitted to the committee should be adequately substantiated by sufficient information," said the Russian mission to the United Nations.

It was the second time in three weeks that Russia and China have objected to the US request to tighten sanctions on North Korea.

Moscow and Beijing have called on the UN to consider easing sanctions on North Korea in response to its opening up dialogue with the United States and halting missile tests.

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