Sanctions against North Korea should keep within limits of UNSC resolutions - Lavrov
MOSCOW. Sept 1 (Interfax) - All conceivable and inconceivable sanctions have been imposed on North Korea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at MGIMO University on Friday.
"All possible sanctions aimed to prevent North Korea from using external contacts to foster missile and nuclear programs banned by the Security Council, all conceivable and even inconceivable sanctions, which bear little relation to these areas of North Korea's activity, have been endorsed by the Security Council by now, and unilateral sanctions, which we deem to be illegitimate, have also been put into place," Lavrov said.
"Considering that the Security Council has imposed sanctions pertaining to the subject of agreement, any participant in this agreement has neither moral nor, I think, legal right to do something extra," he said.
'The thing is that collective sanctions and Security Council decisions are mandatory for everyone," he said.
"I believe nothing can be omitted, I mean everything that has been agreed upon should be implemented, and nothing can be added, either," he said.