The proposal of the US Senator to partially lift the sanctions from Russia failed

The initiative of the US Senator Rand Paul to partially lift the sanctions from the Russian deputies failed. His colleagues from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are casting doubt on the motivation behind this proposal.

Senator Rand Paul. Photo: twitter.com/RandPaul

An aide to the Committee stated that Paul was the only lawmaker to vote for his amendment, notes Voice of America. The amendment stipulated that the current US sanctions against members of the Federal Assembly of Russia would be lifted if Moscow agreed to lift its own sanctions against some members of Congress.

20 senators who were members of the committee voted against this proposal.

A Kentucky lawmaker visited Moscow several months ago, where he met with Russian lawmakers. During this trip, Rand Paul invited Russian deputies to visit the United States, but many of them are under American sanctions and therefore cannot come to America.

The senators noted that Paul's offer was "resolutely rejected".

“The sanctions were imposed because these State Duma deputies voted to authorize Putin to invade Ukraine and take Crimea. “Nothing has changed here,” emphasized the chairman of the Committee, Republican Senator Bob Corker, in a comment to The Daily Beast.

“The Russian parliament has more than 600 members who are not subject to sanctions and with whom we can meet. Even those who are under sanctions can attend the Munich Security Conference, we can see them there, or in Israel, or anywhere else. Therefore, this proposal was decisively rejected for obvious reasons,” he added.

Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who is now barred from visiting Russia (she was denied a Russian visa last year), called Paul's proposal a "capitulation to Putin's aggression."

Sergio Gore, Paul's chief of staff, said the amendment reflects the senator's belief that "dialogue and diplomacy are vital to world peace."

US sanctions imposed against such key Russian lawmakers:

• Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko
• State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin
• Vice Speaker of the Federation Council Yevgeny Bushmin
• Chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the Council of the Federation Andrei Klishas
• Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Ozerov
• Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council Vladimir Jabarov
• Federation Council member Oleg Panteleev
• Member of the Federation Council Nikolay Ryzhkov
• Federation Council member Alexander Totoonov
• Member of the Federation Council from Crimea Sergey Tsekov
• Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Sergey Zheleznyak
• Head of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Elena Mizulina
• Head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov
• Head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky
• State Duma deputy, leader of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov
• Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Sergey Neverov.

Recall that the day before the United States imposed sanctions against 12 Russian companieswhose actions, in the opinion of the US Department of Commerce, contradict the national interests of the United States.

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