US Senator Urges Administration To Drop Idea Of Lifting Sanctions On Deripaska - Letter

US Senator Urges Administration to Drop Idea of Lifting Sanctions on Deripaska - Letter

The top Democrat on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged the Trump administration to drop reported plans to lift sanctions on Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska, a letter obtained by a US media outlet showed on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 05th December, 2018) The top Democrat on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged the Trump administration to drop reported plans to lift sanctions on Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska, a letter obtained by a US media outlet showed on Wednesday.

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin obtained by The Daily Beast, Senator Bob Menendez said he would "strongly oppose" any attempts to remove the sanctions until Deripaska divests from and reliquinshes control of RUSAL and EN+.