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New Sanctions Against Russia Off EU Foreign Ministries' Agenda - Dutch Foreign Minister

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EU Foreign Ministers will not touch upon the topic of further sanctions against Russia during their meeting on Monday, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said.

LUXEMBOURG, June 23 (RIA Novosti) — EU Foreign Ministers will not touch upon the topic of further sanctions against Russia during their meeting on Monday, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said.

“There will be no decision, I think. We will have a discussion today. And if there is need to look into this matter further the rest of the week, we still have the European Council at the end of this week, that could potentially also discuss the issue," Timmermans told RIA Novosti walking into a meeting of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

In March, the US and EU imposed targeted sanctions against Russian officials over the political crisis in Ukraine, as well as against certain Russian companies. The European sanctions list now includes 61 Russian and Ukrainian citizens banned from entering the EU, with their assets in EU member states frozen. Brussels has accused the sanctioned individuals and entities of violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

The leaders of the G7 group of nations have threatened Russia with tougher sanctions targeting key sectors of the country’s economy in the event of further escalation of the Ukrainian crisis. The EU claims to have developed a three-stage sanctions process, whereby the third stage, not yet reached, would imply broad economic sanctions against the entire Russian economy.

According to a statement from the White House, US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed possible new sanctions against Russia at the end of last week.

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