US President Donald Trump's signing into law new sanctions against Russian Federation does not change anything "de facto", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, Hindustan Times reported.
Trump's litany of concerns about the sanctions, which also affect Iran and North Korea, raised the question of how vigorously Trump will implement them regarding Russian Federation. There is nothing new. Both U.S. chambers passed the bill to take the power of lifting sanctions on Russian Federation from Trump, with an overwhelming majority.
Even before it was signed into law, the new sanctions bill provoked retaliation from Russian Federation.
USA congressional panels and a special counsel are investigating.
As other presidents have in the past, Trump protested that Congress was improperly interfering with his power to set foreign policy, in this case by imposing waiting periods before he can suspend or remove sanctions first imposed by former President Barack Obama while Congress reviews and potentially blocks such a move. By limiting the Executive's flexibility, this bill makes it harder for the United States to strike good deals for the American people, and will drive China, Russia, and North Korea much closer together, ' he said.
Wednesday's events will fuel impressions in both Washington and Moscow that Trump's weakened political position is threatening his capacity to carry out his own core foreign policy goals.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has "completely refuted all of the garbage coming out of the press about Trump is now mobilizing against Russian Federation, is mobilizing against China, and Tillerson just completely contradicted it", Billington told Press TV on Wednesday.
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He also said, however, that he has a number of qualms with the "seriously flawed" bill - most notably with the fact that it restricts his ability to ease sanctions without Congress' involvement. 'I thought it was the time to show that we're not going to leave it without an answer'.
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Vice President Mike Pence, touring Baltic countries adjacent to Russian Federation, has followed a hawkish line.
However, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, like Trump, has been critical of the legislation.
"The action by the Congress to put these sanctions in place and the way they did, neither the president nor I were very happy about that", Tillerson told reporters Tuesday.
Congress passed the new sanctions to punish Russian Federation over the election interference and the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea in 2014.
Releasing multiple signing statements with somewhat divergent tones is unusual, to say the least, and could be an indication that, despite the efforts of new chief of staff John Kelly, the administration is still not speaking with a unified voice.
Several provisions of the law target the Russian energy sector, with new limits on USA investment in Russian companies.
The legislation includes sanctions on foreign companies investing in or helping Russian energy exploration, although the president could waive those sanctions.
The measure was signed into law after it passed with overwhelming margins in both the House and Senate - which made the threat of a presidential veto a non-starter - but it was not an easy road to Trump's desk.
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