Ambassador: Switzerland is not entered against Russia no its punishment

Switzerland was not entered against Russia no its punishment and does not take sides in this matter, maintaining neutrality, said the Ambassador of Switzerland in Russia Pierre Helg at the meeting with Russian media.
" on the question of punishment and the accession of Switzerland to the media was very much confusion ", - stressed the diplomat, reports TASS." I wish to emphasize that in contrast to the EU and USA Switzerland was not entered against Russia no punishment. We took our traditional position, not taking sides, as We often do in such situations, " he added. In addition, the Ambassador said that Switzerland has adopted certain measures to ensure that its territory no one could use and abuse this situation to crawl punishment." This concerns as well as among them attempts any of the EU countries to import anything in the Russian Federation through the territory of Switzerland ", he explained." In the rest of Switzerland continues to support its partners regular dialogue and in the current situation is an independent, intermediate position, " said the Helg. on 12 November, the Federal Council of Switzerland issued a letter in which he talked about strengthening the government anti-punishment because of the situation in Ukraine. According to the document, Switzerland adopted additional measures to prevent the circumvention of international sanctions ". Remember, in the last month of summer of this year, Switzerland was included in the list of authorized sanctions DND and LNR, Russian businessmen and bureaucrats, as well as banks and organisations that were included in a similar list of the EU and the USA. For reviews of the state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin, it is soft enough measures have been due to the unwillingness of the country to disrupt the development of economic relations of the two countries under pressure from the United States. Before the last working day of the week the Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna said that the European Union States must now prepare for possible new sanctions against Russia, if Moscow will be in Eastern Ukraine new aggression ". In addition, the Vice-President Biden in a conversation with Prime Minister of Latvia Laimdota Straujuma made the initiative to strengthen penalties against Russia, if Moscow will retain the same course in respect of the Ukrainian fall. November 18, it was announced that North America and the European Union to discuss the strengthening of sanctions against Russia. According to a senior official envoy of the administration of the capital of the United States, on the sidelines of the summit of " twenty " in Australia, the head of U.S. European colleagues began discussing the following steps to increase pressure on the Russian Federation, as well as providing additional assistance to Ukraine ". However, on Thursday, Russia's permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said that EU member States do not have the ability to come to a common opinion about any cancellation penalties against Russia, or their gain.


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