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Worry for India as US warns of curbs over Russian arms | India News – Times of India
December 18, 20202
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NEW DELHI: In a transparent warning to companions and allies, the US has stated main defence purchases from Russia would entice sanctions underneath CAATSA, a transfer that will have implications for India which continues to be a major purchaser of Russian weapon techniques.
Briefing journalists, US assistant secretary for political-navy affairs in the State Department, R Clarke Cooper, stated, “We would caution other US partners against making major purchases of Russian defence equipment in future that would also put them at risk of sanctions.”
The US imposed sanctions on NATO ally Turkey this week for its buy of the Russian S-400 missile interceptor techniques. India expects supply of S-400 missile interceptors by subsequent summer season and there’s widespread apprehension about CAATSA (Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act) being utilized to India and its impression on bilateral ties. India continues to supply weapon techniques from Russia and doesn’t intend to vary it substantively.
Addressing the Indian query, Cooper stated, “I would say that one thing too from an Indian perspective in particular, which is why I raised the legacy issue. CAATSA is not designed to take a punitive action in that space. It is to mitigate and prevent significant addition of high-level, high-tech Russian systems.”
He tried to make clear that sanctions weren’t focused on the nation, however at Russia. “This step should send a clear message globally: CAATSA is designed to impose costs on Russia in response to its malicious cyber activities, its unacceptable behaviour in Ukraine, and other malign activities worldwide.”
He added that CAATSA sanctions wouldn’t “deprive them of spare parts and maintenance to sustain equipment and we understand that that has to occur as a bridge until it can be replaced with non-Russian alternatives. We therefore do not focus our CAATSA enforcement on such sustainment transactions and have repeatedly made that clear”.
Cooper additionally clarified that there was no necessity that the US ought to impose sanctions instantly, nor that there’s any waiver on CAATSA sanctions. This can be troublesome for India going ahead.
“CAATSA sanctions are of a global nature. They’re not limited to a particular state or region, and there is no time-line. I know that there had been questions posed to me and to other colleagues as to we thought sanctions weren’t going to be issued to Turkey because nothing had been done in the last few months. And that’s to just remind that there’s no clock on the United States Government applying them, and there’s also no blanket waiver either. I know some states have thought or sought that either Congress or the Executive Branch would apply a waiver on sanctions, and I just would offer that is definitely not the case,” he stated.
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