The foreign ministers of the twenty-seven have agreed in the early hours of this Thursday to impose new sanctions against Russia after the new escalation of tensions in the war of Ukrainewith the announcement by Putin of the partial mobilization of the population, nuclear threats and referendums in the Donestk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.
“Additional sanctions against Russia will be put on the table immediately, as soon as possible, in coordination with our partners (…) we will study and adopt new restrictive measures, both individual and sectoral,” confirmed the official. EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrellat a press conference after the extraordinary meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly In New York.
As detailed, the new package of sanctions will affect Russian economic sectors like the one in the technology and will expand the European ‘blacklist’ of people who have their assets frozen in the EU and are prohibited from entering the Union.
In any case, now it will be the job of the Council of the EU define the New measures and proceed with your formal adoption in a meeting at the level of the Twenty-seven. “A few hours after Putin’s speech, it was about sending a powerful political message: this was the purpose of the Council meeting,” said Borrell.
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