The approval of new sanctions against Russia is ruled out

report Mehr News, the American Politico website wrote in a report that the leaders of the Group of Seven are not going to approve new sanctions against Russia.

There is no plan for the G7 leaders to impose new sanctions on Russia, according to Politico, although they have called for strengthening the current mechanism to prevent sanctions circumvention. Russia will be by third countries.

Previously, the newspaper Politico quoted an EU diplomat and reported: The European Union has admitted that it has serious problems in the process of imposing sanctions against Russia. has been encountered.

According to this report, the sanctions against Russia have so far failed to achieve the goals and results desired by European and Western countries.

Earlier, EU Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told the Financial Times two weeks ago that the EU is cautious about calls to seize Russian state funds.

The United States and its allies froze about $300 billion in Russian assets in February 2022 due to military operations against Ukraine. There have been calls for the direct confiscation of these funds and their delivery to Kiev. Recently, the Belgian government has offered to confiscate some property, which will be used as collateral if Russia refuses to pay the compensations that Ukraine has demanded.

Russia has objected to the freezing of its assets, saying it is illegal and inappropriate, while it openly believes that seizing them is tantamount to “theft” and that there are consequences for Europe will have Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow would respond in kind, adding that he did not expect “reasonable actions or steps to be taken by Western adversaries.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that anyone who does such a thing will face legal action from Russia.

He added: Encroachment on other people’s property weakens the foundations of the entire economic system in the world.

Despite Russia’s warnings, last week the European Union announced in a statement that the EU countries agreed on the 13th package of sanctions against Russia. It is stated in this statement that EU ambassadors recently agreed in principle on the 13th package of sanctions in the framework of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. This package is one of the most extensive packages approved by the European Union.

According to the EU statement, the package will go through a written process and will officially come into effect on February 24. According to TASS news agency, this package includes the sanctions of about 200 natural and legal persons not only from Russia, but also from a number of Russia’s partner countries, including China and North Korea, which, according to the European Union, participate in Moscow’s economic measures to counter the sanctions. The West has a hand.