Sweden does not expect the adoption of sanctions against Russia on Wednesday
Sweden does not expect the adoption of trade sanctions against Russia at the conference on Wednesday, said Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt.
" Sweden believes that we need to move towards broader financial sanctions. But I think we finish adding in persons in the list of punishments of the second stage. I think that we receive today, " said Reinfeldt before the EU summit, RIA " Novosti ". According to him, " there are differences among European capitals, who want to see more of the penalties in the second phase. As said Reinfeldt, the Swedish government believes that we need to move to the third stage of punishment, because the rules put forward a couple of weeks ago, were not made by the Russians ". As expected, in the center of attention of the summit participants in the summit will be the Ukrainian crisis and, for example, the desirability of introducing new sanctions against Russia. First of Kyiv assured that German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone conversation with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has promised that Ukraine will receive support from the European Council at the meeting on Wednesday. Recall, in March the West, not recognizing the unification of Russia and Crimea, has imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians and businessmen. USA on April 28 in connection with the situation in Ukraine was included in the sanctions list of the 7 Russian nationals and 17 organizations, widening it to almost 50 politicians and entrepreneurs from Russia and Ukraine. The European Union has extended sanctions list of Russian citizens for another fifteen, and later at 13 people, to 61 people. The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin, head of Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov Century, and the majority of officials, deputies and large Authorized business many times emphasized that entered against Russia punishment from the US and the EU will hit boomerangs by the initiators of these restrictions.
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