Following the accusations made by World Trade Organization (WTO) President Ngozi Okonjo-Iyewala against the USA, she may also be included in the list of American sanctions. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. TASS.
“It is important that now the US Treasury Department and the Ministry of Commerce do not include him in their sanction lists for dangerous free thought,” the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry wrote on the Telegram channel.
The reason for this observation was the WTO chief’s interview with a Japanese financial publication, in which Okonjo-Iewala talked about the challenges faced by global free trade since 2017, when US President Donald Trump withdrew his country from the Trans-Pacific. Partnership. He also noted that President Joe Biden is trying to limit China’s access to advanced technologies in semiconductors and other fields, which the WTO does not welcome.
President of the World Trade Organization guessHe said global GDP would decline by five percent if the United States “continues to cut off trade and logistics routes and break product supply chains, as it has done by imposing unilateral anti-Russian sanctions.”
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