Decree on NKorea sanctions is procedure to implement UN resolution.

MOSCOW, April 1 (Itar-Tass) - The decree by the Russian president on
sanctions against North Korea is an internal procedure of the country to
implement UN Security Council resolution 1874, Deputy Foreign Minister
Alexei Borodavkin told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
"When the UN SC was voting on resolution 1874, Moscow supported the
sanctions against North Korea. Nothing new has happened from the point of
view of joining the regime of sanctions and its use since the issue of
Dmitry Medvedev's decree," Borodavkin said, "Moscow implemented and
continues to complement resolution 1874. It is our internal procedure,
which was realized as the decree by the Russian president came out."
The regime of sanctions is not everlasting. It is written in the
resolution that if North Korea takes real actions towards
denuclearization, the regime of sanctions may be revised. As for the
resumption of six-party talks, the decree cannot affect them in any way,"
the diplomat underlined.
President Dmitry Medvedev prohibited all state structures, Russian
legal and physical persons to purchase all types of weapons in North
Korea. The relevant decree on measures for implementing UN Security
Council resolution 1874 of June 12, 2009, was placed at the Kremlin's
official website.
"All state institutions, industrial, commercial, financial, transport
and other enterprises, banks, organizations, other legal and physical
persons, under Russian jurisdiction, should be guided in their activities
by the fact that starting from June 12, 2009 and up to a special
directive, it is forbidden to buy in the DPRK all types of arms and
associated with them materials, their transportation with the use of sea
and air craft under the State Flag of the Russian Federation,
implementation of financial operations, technical training, consultations
as well as rendering services and assistance which are connected with
deliveries, manufacture, operation and use of such weapons or materiel,"
the decree says.
Besides, the decree bans transportation across the Russian territory,
including by air transport, export from the Russian territory to North
Korea, transfer to North Korea all types of weapons and connected with
them materiel outside the Russian territory.
The decree does not permit either specialized training or teaching
North Korean citizens in the Russian territory or by Russian citizens in
subjects which can be conducive to proliferation of North Korean nuclear
activities and development of its delivery systems of nuclear arms.
UN Security Council resolution 1874 of June 12, 2009 places a number
of restrictions on North Korea which carried out a nuclear test.
The document toughened sanctions against North Korea, banned trade in
all kinds of armaments with it, except light small arms. It also
introduced a number of financial restrictions, including the freezing of
assets that could be used to fund the nuclear and missile programs of
North Korea. It calls upon all countries to inspect the ships en route to
and from North Korea for the presence of banned weapons or nuclear
materials.
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