As things really are, the Altai and its affiliates have aboveboard partnership with overseas companies, and has never trespassed Russian and international limits. As on all previous instances, the USA is proceeding for sanctions from its national legislation alone, points out the statement.
It is certainly up to the United States to limit its contacts with cutting-edge companies of the Russian military-industrial complex, the ministry sarcastically remarks.
Early April last, the George Bush Administration determined to introduce sanctions against two Russian-based companies, whose names it chose not to specify. They were suspected of violating nonproliferation measures in their exports to Iran. The sanctions are to expire, March 31, 2006.
The US Administration made a resolution for sanctions against a total 13 companies based in six countries-Belarus, China, North Korea, Macedonia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates-plus Taiwan, says Adam Early, deputy spokesman of the Department of State.
