Virus emergence in China is no ground for sanctions against Beijing, says Lavrov

Virus emergence in China is no ground for sanctions against Beijing, says Lavrov
# 15 May 2020 21:18 (UTC +04:00)

The emergence of the virus in China cannot serve as the ground for slapping sanctions against that country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview on Friday, APA reports citing TASS.

"There is the need to find the specific causes of the emergence of this virus and understand why the process of its person-to-person transmission has begun and so on," Russia’s top diplomat said.

"Eventually, this will be important for developing an antidote and will help secure ourselves against this threat, instead of talking that the virus emerged on a marketplace in China and that is why it is necessary to impose sanctions against that country," Lavrov said.

US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham earlier submitted a bill to Congress, which envisages imposing sanctions against China, if Beijing "fails to cooperate and provide a full accounting of the events leading up to the outbreak of COVID-19."

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