A day after spending 90 minutes with Vladimir Putin in Moscow and agreeing to have President Trump meet the Russian leader in Paris next month, U.S. national security advisor John Bolton seemed to hedge on the obligation to impose further sanctions on Russia for violating an international ban on using chemical weapons.
John Bolton said Wednesday the administration is "still considering what we may be obligated to do" under a statute that calls for further sanctions if Russia does not prove its innocence in the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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Bolton was speaking in Azerbaijan's capital after two days of talks in Moscow, where he reiterated Trump's intention to withdraw from a 1987 nuclear weapons treaty.
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