Government is relieved that the United States Treasury has announced that it will lift sanctions on Russian aluminium giant Rusal as some 500 employees in the local bauxite industry would have been affected in recent months, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge says.
“We, of course, are relieved to know that that action is not to continue in the form that it was originally intended. More than that, I cannot say at this point in time, because like you, I would have only heard what is planned over the news networks,” he said, when asked about the matter at a press conference at Takuba Lodge on Thursday.
According to Greenidge, the issue of the sanctions against Rusal was a complex one that was “very much a part of the problem of international diplomacy and tensions.”
