QUESTION: Your Senate – former Senate colleague Lindsey Graham was next to you in that meeting with the Ukrainian foreign minister. He has a veto-proof majority on this bill to put sanctions on Russia. How quickly do you want the option for more sanctions on Russia, or are you asking him to wait?
SECRETARY RUBIO: No, we’re not – look, the Senate is going to act, ultimately. I mean, I think in the past we’ve [inaudible] to give us a little time to see if we can make some progress on our talks, but we’ve also been pretty clear with the Russian side for weeks now, going back six or seven weeks; we’ve been communicating with the Russian side that this effort was being undertaken, that we anticipated that when all was said and done it would have close to 80 co-sponsors in the Senate, and I imagine a comparable percentage of support in the House, and that that was an effort we couldn’t stop and don’t control.
Så kort sagt, rundt 80 av 100 senatorer er for å sanksjonere Russland hvis de ikke kommer noen vei i forhandlingene.