Speaking during a debate about the downing of a Malaysian airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine that killed 298 people, most of them Dutch, he said the sanctions would send a strong signal to Moscow that "you are on the wrong path".
Although most of the bodies have been repatriated, the experts have not been able to get to the site to retrieve other remains and belongings of the victims of the crash, 195 of whom were Dutch.
"They are losing valuable time," Rutte was quoted as saying in a statement issued by his office, which added that he had "urgently appealed to the Ukrainian president to stop the hostilities to facilitate the humanitarian work in dealing with the victims". REUTERS
http://www.todayonline.com/world/netherlands-new-eu-sanctions-russia-would-have-immediate-effect
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***The European Union’s sectoral sanctions against Russia, preliminarily approved at Tuesday’s meeting in Brussels by the permanent representatives of the EU’s 28 members, will be approved in a written procedure by the EU Council without convening an EU summit, an EU Council official told ITAR-TASS.
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EU Names 8 Russians and 3 Firms Added to Sanctions List....
ReplyDeleteBRUSSELS — The European Commission has published the names of eight Russians, including some of Russian President Vladimir Putin's associates, and three companies that will have their assets frozen as part of sanctions against Russia's actions in eastern Ukraine.
The people on the list include billionaire businessman Arkady Rotenberg who is Putin's long-time judo partner, and already on a U.S. sanctions list since March.
Yury Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov — the two largest shareholders in Bank Rossiya, a St. Petersburg company that expanded rapidly after Putin moved to Moscow and became president in 2000 — were also blacklisted.
The companies named include Russian National Commercial Bank, which was the first Russian bank into Crimea after the region's annexation by Russia earlier this year.
The other two firms are anti-aircraft weapons maker Almaz-Antey and Dobrolyot airline, which operates flights between Moscow and Simferopol in the Crimea............................http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/504344.html
31/7/14