MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has submitted for consideration of President Vladimir Putin a draft decree on measures to fulfill United Nations Security Council Resolution 2321 dated on November 30, 2016, the official website for posting the data about the drafting of regulatory acts said on Monday.
Under the resolution endorsed, seeking to suppress the development and the provision of resources for forbidden North Korean programs additional international sanctions, which restrict cooperation with this country in military-technical, trade-economic, financial, transport and educational areas, are being imposed.
Furthermore, target restrictions on a number of North Korean individuals and legal entities, as well as the lists of produce, including 'luxury items', the importation and exportation of which to and from North Korea are banned, are being extended.
According to the explanatory note to the draft decree, the measures stipulated by Security Council Resolution 2321 imposed extra bans on trade-economic, banking and financial and scientific-technical cooperation with North Korea.
In the trade-economic area the resolution prohibited North Korea from exporting copper, nickel, silver and zinc. At the same time, an exception, which was made for the project of transit of Russian coal by OJSC Russian Railways (RZD) (MOEX: RZHD) via the North Korean port of Rajin for subsequent shipment to third countries under UN Security Council Resolution 2270 dated on March 2, 2016, remains in effect.
Extra restrictions are imposed on cooperation in the transport sector: the delivery of new helicopters and sea vessels to North Korea is prohibited; state registration should be lifted on all sea vessels which are possessed by or under control of North Korea; the measures of checking North Korean aircraft and sea vessels in the UN member countries are being tightened.
The explanatory note stipulates that in the banking and financial sector UN member countries are instructed to close all representative offices of their banks in North Korea within 90 days from the day the resolution has been endorsed. Individuals and organizations are forbidden from funding support for maintaining trade with North Korea via state and private channels.
Scientific-technical cooperation involving individuals or groups, which officially represent North Korea, except for exchanges in the medical area, if it may promote the development of forbidden North Korean programs, should be suspended; the list of vocations, in which the education of North Korean citizens in the UN member countries is prohibited, is being extended.
Furthermore, the lists of dual-purpose goods and other items whose import into North Korea is prohibited on the grounds of their potential employment for the country's nuclear missile programs and other actions, which breach the North Korean sanctions regime, are enlarged. New individuals and legal entities are placed on the list of target restrictions (a travel ban, an asset freeze).
The Russian Foreign Ministry earlier said that UN Security Council Resolution 2321 on new sanctions against North Korea should not undergo free interpretations and at the same time should send a signal to Pyongyang regarding the need to reinstate the non-proliferation regime.