NEW YORK – The Biden administration has placed ten companies in Pakistanand the UAE for supporting the nuclear activities of the South Asiancountry.
It said that 10 companies in Pakistan and UAE posed unacceptable risks ofusing or diverting items for Pakistan’s nuclear activities or are involvedPakistan’s “nuclear activities and missile proliferation-relatedactivities.”
The ten firms are the total 24 companies added to an export control listfor aiding Russia’s military or defense industrial base or for supplying anIranian electronics company.
The US Commerce Department said that the entities, based in Latvia,Pakistan, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland, has been place on the list dueto US national security and foreign policy concerns.
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The foreign companies include Fiber Optic Solutions in Latvia and Russia’sAO Kraftway Corporation PSC, Russian AO Scientific Research Center forElectronic Computing, LLC Fibersense, and Scientific Production CompanyOptolin, AO PKK Milandr; Milandr EK OOO; Milandr ICC JSC; Milur IS, OOO;(OOO) Microelectronic Production Complex (MPK) Milandr; and RuselectronicsJSC and Swiss based Milur SA.
The Biden administration also designated four trading and supply companiesin Singapore for supplying or attempting to supply an Iranian electronicscompany, Pardazan System Namad Arman (PASNA).
