iLMu2lautan – Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama belum lagi menanda-tangani
rang undang-undang penjelasan cara utk lebih sekatan ekonomi terhadap Rusia.
Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat mengesahkan Jen Psaki ‘misspoke’ semasa
taklimat media.
Rang undang2 itu dijangka ditandatangani "pd
akhir minggu ini," menurut kenya-taan Setiausaha Akhbar di White House Josh
Earnest Selasa. Juru-cakap Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat Jen Psaki mendakwa
pd hari Rabu bahwa rang undang-undang itu telah ditandatangani.
"Beliau menandatanganinya semalam," Psaki
dinyatakan semasa taklimat itu, mengganggu Gayane Chichakyan RT ini yang
bertanya soalan mengenai rang undang-undang digelar Ukraine Kebebasan Akta
Sokongan 2014.
Walau bagaimanapun, menurut kepada wakil-wakil Rumah Putih
"Presiden masih belum menandatangani undang-undang ini."
"Jen [Psaki] sebenarnya ‘misspoke’ semasa taklimat hari
ini, jadi kami akan membetulkan ini dengan nota kaki pada transkrip dalam laman
web dalam beberapa minit," jabatan ini officialconfirmed untuk Sputnik
News Agency.
PSAKI Misspoke: OBAMA Not YET Signed NEW
Anti-Russian BILL .
. .
US President Barack Obama has not yet signed a bill clearing
the way for more economic sanctions against Russia. The US State Department
confirmed Jen Psaki misspoke during the press briefing.
The bill was expected to be signed “by the end of the week,”according to
White House press secretary Josh Earnest’s statement in Tuesday. US State
Department spokesperson Jen Psaki claimed on Wednesday that the bill was
already signed.
“He signed it yesterday,” Psaki stated during
the briefing, interrupting RT’s Gayane Chichakyan who was asking a question
about the bill dubbed Ukraine
Freedom Support Act of 2014.
However, according to representatives of the White House “the President has not yet signed this
legislation.”
Rang undang-undang itu akan menyaksikan kira-kira $ 350 juta
pada bantuan yang diberikan kepada Ukraine.
Selain bantuan tentera dan bukan tentera ke Ukraine, rang
undang2 tambahan membolehkan pengenaan lagi sekatan bersyarat pada sektor
pertahanan Rusia, seperti hukuman ke atas milik negara senjata Rosoboronexport
peniaga dan orang perseorangan yang berkaitan.
Rang undang2 jg membayangkan $20 juta dana tahunan
bagi menyokong "demo-krasi Rusia & masyarakat sivil organisasi"
termasuk melalui peningkatan "Amerika Syarikat aktiviti penyiaran kerajaan
disokong."
Satu lagi keutamaan berkembang penyiaran di negara2 bekas
Kesatuan Soviet, yang akan kos lain $ 10 juta setahun.
Walaupun rang undang-undang itu tidak membuat sekatan wajib
sepenuhnya, ia membolehkan Obama untuk memutuskan bahagian mana rang
undang-undang untuk menguatkuasakan.
'Pendekatan ketinggalan zaman'
Berita itu datang hari yang sama Presiden Obama membuat
pengumuman yang bersejarah mengenai "perubahan dasar" ke arah Havana
dan Amerika Syarikat merancang untuk mengangkat jualan dan eksport embargo dan
mewujudkan hubungan diplomatik dengan Cuba.
BACA lebih lanjut: Obama mengumumkan Amerika Syarikat akan menubuhkan kedutaan
di Cuba, sekatan lif READ MORE: Obama
announces US will establish embassy in Cuba, lift sanctions
Dekad "pendekatan ketinggalan zaman" membawa
sebarang perubahan rejim di Cuba yang "masih ditadbir oleh Castros dan
parti Komunis," Presiden Amerika Syarikat mengumumkan.
"Tiada negara lain menyertai kami dalam sekatan ini. Dan
ia mempunyai kesan yang kecil, "kata Obama. "Kami akan berakhir
pendekatan ketinggalan zaman yang selama beberapa dekad telah gagal untuk
memajukan kepentingan kami."
Bagi Rusia, ahli politik Amerika Syarikat termasuk Obama juga
telah mengakui bahawa sekatan yang dikenakan setakat ini tidak adalah seperti
yang berkesan seperti g diharapkan.
Walau bagaimanapun, "setiap negara
adalah sangat berbeza," Psaki berkata, nam-paknya membayangkan bahwa
desakan utk "pengasingan" Rusia mungkin masih entah bagaimana
mempengaruhi polisi dan proses dalam negara.
OP-EDGE: matlamat Sekatan 'adalah perubahan rejim, tidak kira Cuba
atau Rusia OP-EDGE:
Sanctions’ goal is regime change, no matter Cuba or Russia
Sementara itu, Kementerian Luar Rusia berharap bahawa
Washington mungkin akhirnya menyedari ketidakberkesanan tekanan sekatan di
negara-negara lain, kerana ia akhirnya lakukan dalam hal Cuba.
"Ia menunjukkan bahawa Presiden Amerika Syarikat yg
telah mengiktirafkan yg sia-sia tahun mencuba untuk 'mengasingkan'
Cuba," kata Kementerian Luar Rusia. "Kami tidak boleh tetapi berharap
bahawa Washington akan cepat menyedari yang sia-sia sekatan tekanan yang sama
terhadap negara lain."
The bill will see some $350 million in assistance provided to
Ukraine.
Besides the military and non-military assistance to Ukraine,
the bill additionally allows further imposition of conditional sanctions on the
Russian defense sector, such as penalties on state-owned arms dealer
Rosoboronexport as well as connected individuals.
The bill also envisions $20 million in annual funding in
order to support “Russian
democracy and civil society organizations” including through
increasing “US
government-supported broadcasting activities.”Another priority is
expanded broadcasting in countries of the former Soviet Union, which will cost
another $10 million per year.
Although the bill does not make sanctions fully obligatory,
it allows Obama to decide which parts of the bill to enforce.
‘Outdated approach’
The news comes the very same day President Obama made a
historic announcement about a “policy change” towards Havana and US plans to
lift the sales and exports embargo and establish diplomatic relations with
Cuba.
The decades of “outdated
approach” brought no regime change in Cuba which is “still governed by the Castros and the
Communist party,” the US president announced.
“No other nation joins us in
these sanctions. And it has had little effect,” Obama said. “We
will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our
interest.”
In the case of Russia, US politicians including Obama have
also admitted that restrictions imposed so far were not as effective as
expected. However, “every country
is hugely different,” Psaki said, apparently implying that the push
for “isolation” of
Russia may still somehow influence policies and processes within the country.
The Russian Foreign Ministry meanwhile expressed hope that
Washington might finally realize the ineffectiveness of sanction pressure on
other countries, as it eventually did in the case of Cuba.
“It is indicative that the US
president has recognized the futility of years of trying to ‘isolate’
Cuba," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "We cannot but hope that Washington
will be quick to realize the futility of similar sanctions pressure on other
countries.”
