The Russian Foreign Ministry jointly with both houses of the Russian parliament (Federation Council and State Duma) will work on a legal response to the US sanctions against Russia, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Saturday, TASS reports.
"The situations, which have emerged from the US destructive policies against Russia, are overlapping," he said. "We realize that in order to structure our line of counteraction, our counter-game more effectively we, possibly, will need certain additions and clarifications to the current legal base."
"Whether that would be a "merged" legal act - I am not sure whether it may be possible at all, but I am confident, that improvement of the legal base is likely to be necessary," he said. "We shall jointly with other federal authorities, with our lawmakers continue this work."
Currently, everything is at the stage of intensive discussions, he added.
