The United States has blocked Russia’s contribution to the IAEA to combat cancer
Moscow. April 29. INTERFAX.RU — Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia said that the United States froze Russia’s contribution to the implementation of the program of the IAEA to combat cancer, reported Saturday on the Ministry’s website.
“A Russian Bank, which carried out the payment, a question was raised regarding whether a given translation against Iran,” — said in a statement. “Despite assurances from the Russian side that the money is allocated purely for humanitarian purposes, us banks delay the transfer of the tranche in a few weeks, in early April 2017 returned the frozen funds of the state Corporation “Rosatom”. As a consequence, the IAEA still has not received the Russian voluntary contribution to cancer treatment in 2017″.
According to the foreign Ministry, the actions of the U.S. credit agencies explained “free interpretation” of sanctions against Moscow. The Russian side has repeatedly tried to solve this issue, but “the American administration hasn’t explained the fallacy of their banks they have taken steps”.
In the Russian Ministry of the actions of the United States called the abuse of the international financial system at the expense of control over dollar transactions and claim that they cause direct damage to the functioning of the UN system.