Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser at the White House, spoke in an interview at the Washington, DC Economic Club in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, April 14, 2022.
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Washington — National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Thursday that the Biden administration is focused on preventing Russia from avoiding penal global sanctions for war in Ukraine.
Sullivan said in a speech at the Washington, DC Economic Club that the administration is now focusing on implementing sanctions already imposed on Russia, its officials and the elite.
When asked if the United States ran out of penalties that the United States could impose on Russia, Mr. Sullivan said, “What we have done is this across financial sanctions, investment bans and export restrictions from a key economic perspective. It means unprecedented in terms of taking a series of steps. ” “But in the next few days we’ll avoid focusing,” he added.
“When trying to adapt to the fact that Russia is under this enormous economic pressure, what steps can they try to avoid our sanctions, and we do it? How do you crack down on? “
president Joe Biden’s The National Security Adviser added that he hopes the White House will announce certain goals “within next week or two weeks” that it seeks to promote Russia’s evasion of sanctions.
In the weeks following Russia’s invasion of its former Soviet neighbors, Washington and its allies have imposed a round of coordinated sanctions to attack Russia across Iran and North Korea as the most sanctioned nations in the world.
Mr Sullivan reiterated that the United States is deeply concerned about China-Russia cooperation and that the world’s second-largest economy may try to support Moscow’s blunt sanctions.
Mr Sullivan said the United States has not yet observed Beijing providing military aid to Moscow for the fight in Ukraine.
“This is something we constantly monitor, and of course we don’t always have full visibility,” says Sullivan. “Russia and China have an economic relationship and there is ongoing economic exchange between Russia and China, but at this point we have seen systematic efforts to weaken, weaken, or defend sanctions. Have you ever? We are not. “
