U.S. Senate foreign relations chairman wants to hold off on Turkey sanctions bills

The Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on T...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jim Risch talks to the media after a meeting with Carlos Alfredo Vecchio , charge d'affaires appointed by Venezuela's opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

“Probably it’s best we don’t pass a sanctions bill at this moment,” Senator Jim Risch said during a meeting with reporters in his office. Frustrated with Turkey’s offensive in northern Syria and the S-400 purchase, different groups of lawmakers - including Risch and Senator Bob Menendez, the top Foreign Relations Democrat, introduced legislation that would impose stiff sanctions on Ankara.Risch commented that the United States does not want to undermine that relationship, but that the weapons sale cannot go ahead.

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