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Russian parliament leader calls for condemning unilateral sanctions

Xinhua, November 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

A Russian parliament leader urged the world to condemn the unilateral policy of sanctions.

"All these punishment is not an end in itself, but a method of solving other, not publicly declared, problems," said Sergey Naryshkin, chairman of the Russian State Duma, the lower houses of parliament

"That's why it's important without delay to document their real, not imaginary goals," said Naryshkin in his article published in the official Rossiyskaya Gazetta on Tuesday.

"The entire international community needs to deal with it. At least, to condemn the policy of unilateral sanctions not approved by the UN Security Council," said Naryshkin. Endi