A Russian-Chinese obstruction of an American project to cut off oil from North Korea

Russia and China asked Washington for additional information on a request from the United States to stop oil deliveries to North Korea in 2018 because it exceeded the quotas of 39, imports fixed by the United Nations. He told the 15-member committee that he was carefully reviewing the application, requesting additional information on each case of "illegal" transfers of petroleum products, while China supported the request for additional information.

Information request hampers a process started by Washington last weekend, Exports of Petroleum Derivatives The United States asked the United Nations to stop any new oil exports to Korea from North in 2018, citing a US report that Pyongyang exceeded import quotas set at the end of the 2017 sanctions round.

United Nations Sanctions Committee on North Korea, attached to a summary of a report from US intelligence services.