Jim O’Brien will shape the policy of sanctions on corruption, human rights and threats to national security.
The U.S. State Department has appointed a new penalty coordinator. This is Ambassador James O’Brien. This was announced on Thursday, April 14, by U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Twitter.
“We welcome Jim O’Brien as the new sanctions coordinator. Jim will play a critical role in shaping our sanctions policy to account for corruption and human rights abuses, and prevent actions that threatens our national security, ”he wrote. Blinken.
From 1989 to 2001, James O’Brien was a senior adviser to the country’s secretary of state, deputy head of the political planning department, and also the U.S. president’s special representative in the Balkans; in the Barack Obama administration, he was the US president’s special envoy for the release of Americans held captive abroad. Until recently, O’Brien was Vice Chairman of the Albright Stonebridge Group, an international consulting firm specializing in the healthcare, media communications, information technology and financial sectors.
It will be recalled that on February 24, the United States imposed “unprecedented” sanctions against the Russian Federation for its aggression on Ukraine and continues to enforce them.
So, last week it was reported that the largest diamond and shipbuilding companies of the Russian Federation fell under US sanctions.
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Source: korrespondent
