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By Carole LANDRY
The United States and China have agreed on a new raft of tougher UN sanctions against North Korea in response to Pyongyang's fifth and biggest nuclear test, a Security Council diplomat said Wednesday.
Although Russia has expressed reservations about the draft resolution, they should not stand in the way of a Security Council vote on the new package of punitive measures as early as next week, the diplomat said.
The key provision of the proposed new sanctions would be a cap on North Korea's coal exports to China, Pyongyang's main trading partner and ally, that could deprive the communist hermit state of tens of millions of dollars in revenue.
"The key thing is that China and the US have gotten to a position where they can agree on," the diplomat said on condition of anonymity.
"The Russians are trying to hold it up, the Chinese are comfortable with it in terms of the content," he added.
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