Lithuanian Foreign Ministry: new package of EU sanctions against Russia is an attempt to patch holes
12/11/2023, 9:49:07 AM
Highlights: Lithuanian Foreign Ministry: new package of EU sanctions against Russia is an attempt to patch holes. Landsbergis said that the longer negotiations on new sanctions packages drag on, the weaker these measures become. Latvian Foreign Minister regrets that the new sanctions do not apply to Belarus. Earlier, the director of the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Shirov, expressed the opinion that the West is using sanctions against Russian rather as an information pretext.
The new, twelfth package of EU sanctions against Russia is nothing more than an attempt to patch up the holes in the sanctions regime. This point of view was expressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis.
Speaking before the EU meeting at the level of foreign ministers, Landsbergis said that the longer negotiations on new sanctions packages drag on, the weaker these measures become.
"The twelfth package, which is being discussed now, will not be a big step forward. Rather, it is patching holes," TASS quoted the Lithuanian minister as saying.
The Latvian Foreign Minister also noted that he regrets the fact that the new sanctions do not apply to Belarus. Landsbergis promised to bring this issue up for discussion in the future.
Earlier, the director of the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Shirov, expressed the opinion that the West is using sanctions against Russia rather as an information pretext.