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Trump to keep sanctions on Russia, says top economic adviser
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IANS | 27 May, 2017
US President Donald Trump
favours keeping in place the sanctions Western nations imposed on Russia
over Moscow's role in the Ukrainian conflict, one of his top advisers
said.
Speaking to reporters at the G7 summit, Director of
the National Economic Council Gary Cohn said: "We're not lowering our
sanctions on Russia. If anything, we would probably look to get tougher
on Russia."
Cohn said this just days after telling the media that
the Trump administration was "looking at" the issue and had not yet
arrived at a firm position.
Acknowledging that his previous
comments created confusion about Trump's intentions, the presidential
adviser said that he "should have just been much clearer", Xinhua news
agency reported.
The possibility that Washington was open to softening the sanctions caused unease among some European allies.
President
of the European Council Donald Tusk, appealed to the G7 nations -- the
US, Germany, Japan, France, Britain, Italy, and Canada -- to show unity
on the question of the Russian sanctions.
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