Source: EU not ready to break the existing military contacts with Russia

The EU is ready to introduce a ban on fresh military contracts with Russia, " refusing to interrupt existing, " said a European diplomatic source in the margins held in Brussels the meeting of Ministers of foreign Affairs of the European Union.
" The military embargo is planned to focus on future contracts, for example, the current consensus have the opportunity to be completed at the discretion of the countries participating in these contracts, " said the head of the Department, " said the source, quoted by ITAR-TASS. He Also confirmed data that already this week the European Union will publish additions to the list of individuals and organizations in Russia that will be included in the new edition of the " black list ". First it was claimed that the head of the EU foreign Ministers on Tuesday will accept new sanctions list, which due to the extended criteria will include legal and natural persons from Russia. Also on Tuesday, the head of the foreign Ministry of great Britain and Sweden Philip Hammond and Carl Bildt told that will achieve an embargo on military supplies to the Russian Federation. The head of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite Also called for an embargo on weapons for the Russian Federation because of the escalation of the fall in Ukraine. On the first day of the week Prime Minister Mr Cameron D. said that the Union of European States ready for the introduction in Russia of new punishments. Remember that last Friday, the European Union extended the legal basis for the use of restrictive measures of the EU in connection with the situation in Ukraine. Remember, on July 17, the European Council adopted a final report on Ukraine, in which, for example, reported that leaders of the EU countries in the environment requested the European Commission to revise and stop for some time a number of programmes of cooperation with Russia, in addition to cross-border cooperation and programmes of civil society. Also was assigned to the services of the European Union by the end of July to include in the new sanctions list of people and organizations, and among them from Russia, extended criteria.


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