AmCham head sees no new US sanctions for Russia soon

MOSCOW, Mar 6 (PRIME) -- A bill on anti-Russian sanctions, which is currently in the U.S. Congress, will unlikely be adopted in the near future and will most likely be further revised, head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (AmCham) Alexis Rodzyanko told PRIME in an interview released Wednesday.

“As for sanctions: there is a bill, which was considered last year and returned in a revised version this year. It was recently published by the U.S. Congress. It is being considered by a committee of the upper house and is not so far proposed for voting and then adoption. There is no parallel bill in the lower house, that’s why we should not expect that it will be adopted soon,” he said.

“It will most likely be further edited. This is only a preliminary stage so far. As far as I understand, there is no hurry here, everything will be done in a usual regime with the possibility of discussing and proposing changes. The bill will unlikely be submitted for voting in that form that we see it now,” he added.

In late February, the U.S. Congress published the text of the bill, which implies introduction of new sanctions against Russia. The documented submitted by several senators in mid-February implies sanctions against new Russian state debt and the energy sector and may also affect banks.

The current bill is less frightful for the Russian banking sector, as it does not contain any certain banks, Rodzyanko said.

He also said the second part of the U.S. sanctions against Russia over an incident in Salisbury may be announced in the near future.

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