Finland changed its stance on the issue of anti-Russian punishment
Finland supports the introduction of new sanctions against Russia, said on Wednesday the Minister for European Affairs and foreign trade of Lenita Toivakka. This contradicts the position that the country has taken on this issue until recently. " It is clear that punishment will come into force over the next few days, if Russia will not make more than they do now. A ceasefire in itself this is not enough, " she said, according to ITAR-TASS. According to the Minister, the government supports the introduction of the next batch of punishment." Finland has approved the sentence as proposed. Preparatory work was great and our officials worked hard to ensure that the consequences for Finland would be moderate. The position of Finland is that the punishment must enter into force, if the Russian Federation and Ukraine will not go ahead then, " she said. Toivakka also stressed that " the spiral of punishment is a dangerous phenomenon because it is unknown what industry industry will be affected by possible contractee from Russia ". Yesterday the journal the wall Street Journal reported that sanctions against Russia was postponed because of the position of Finland." certain countries, led by Finland wanted to enter new sanctions into force was postponed until going dialogues between Kiev, Moscow and militia, noted the source. The print edition also brought the message of the Prime Minister of Finland Alexander Stubb about the fact that " in General, Finland is of the opinion that At the present time, the wrong time (for new sanctions) ". In addition, the Finnish Prime Minister said that concerned the question of the possible impact of retaliatory punishment from Russia ". First Director of the office of the financial times in Brussels Peter Spiegel also said that the adoption of sanctions against Russia the European Union has been postponed because of the position of one of the countries of the community. On the first day of the week the EU could not approve the introduction of sanctions against Russia automatic writing procedure and delayed their introduction.