REarlier, the head of EU diplomacy warned that sanctions may not be agreed due to the position of some countries on the oil embargo from Russia. He also clarified that he does not know how long it will take to approve the sixth package now
The foreign ministers of the 27 EU countries failed to agree on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia. This was announced by the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrel following a meeting of the EU Council in Brussels.
“Unfortunately, it was not possible to reach an agreement on the sixth package of sanctions today,” he said.
Borrel added that the foreign ministers of the EU countries did not discuss the possibility of paying compensation to the countries of the community for the imposition of sanctions against Russia. He also said that he did not know how many weeks it would take to agree on the sixth package of sanctions, including the oil embargo, against Russia.
Since the end of February, the European Union has imposed five packages of sanctions against Russia and is preparing a sixth. The measures must be approved by the EU Council. Plans to include an oil embargo in this set in early May were announced by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. In addition, the sixth package of EU sanctions, according to her, will be aimed at high-ranking Russian military and other persons who have committed war crimes, disconnecting Sberbank and a number of other Russian major banks from the SWIFT international system, as well as a ban on broadcasting in the European Union for three major Russian state channels.
Borrel had previously warned that the sixth package of sanctions might not be agreed at the meeting on May 16, as some countries do not intend to change their position on limiting the import of Russian oil. Hungary, in particular, spoke out against the plans for an oil embargo: its authorities have repeatedly stated that they would not approve a package of sanctions if it included an embargo. Reuters wrote that Bulgaria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic also expressed concerns about the ban at one of the meetings.
On May 8, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on the European Union to take a unified position, which the association does not currently have “in relation to some sanctions”.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said in March that Russia was not going to ask the West to lift sanctions. The authorities admit that there are difficulties due to restrictions, but at the same time they believe that they cannot be compared with the “terrible trials of the country in the twentieth century”. President Vladimir Putin warned the EU countries about the “intractable consequences” if sanctions pressure continues. In early May, he signed a decree on Russia’s new response to sanctions.
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