{"id":106042,"date":"2020-12-15T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=106042"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:50:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:50:20","slug":"moscow-condemns-us-sanctions-on-turkey-over-russian-missile-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=106042","title":{"rendered":"Moscow condemns US sanctions on Turkey over Russian missile purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Moscow-condemns-US-sanctions-on-Turkey-over-Russian-missile-purchases.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Moscow-condemns-US-sanctions-on-Turkey-over-Russian-missile-purchases.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned US sanctions against Turkey over the purchase of Russia\u2019s S-400 air defence missiles as \u201cillegitimate\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is, of course, another manifestation of an arrogant attitude towards international law, a manifestation of illegitimate, unilateral coercive measures that the United States has been using for many years, already decades, left and right,\u201d Lavrov said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd, of course, this does not add, I think, to the credibility of the United States in the international arena as a responsible participant\u2026 including in the field of military-technology cooperation,\u201d Lavrov added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington on Monday announced sanctions on fellow NATO member Turkey, saying it was banning all US export licenses to the Presidency of Defence Industries and refusing any visas for the agency\u2019s president, Ismail Demir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia last year delivered the S-400 air defence system to Ankara, despite warnings that it is not compatible with Turkey\u2019s membership in the NATO alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey\u2019s foreign ministry on Monday said that the US sanctions were \u201cunfair\u201d and called for \u201cdialogue and diplomacy\u201d instead. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned US sanctions against Turkey over the purchase of Russia\u2019s S-400 air defence missiles as \u201cillegitimate\u201d. \u201cThis is, of course, another manifestation of an arrogant attitude towards international law, a manifestation of illegitimate, unilateral coercive measures that the United States has been using for many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":106043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}