It became known about the trick that the EU is resorting to to extend anti-Russian sanctions
As soon as voices begin to be heard in the European Union about the abolition of anti-Russian sanctions, an initiative immediately appears to tighten them.
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The permanent representative of Russia to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, spoke about this in an interview with Izvestia, answering the question whether the situation will begin to change with the appearance of a new chancellor in Austria, who called for the lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation.
The diplomat noted that Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is not the first person in the EU to advocate the lifting of sanctions, and a number of leaders of other countries have made similar statements.
“Any country, regardless of size, can, formally speaking, not only become a driving force for the abolition of restrictions, but also achieve their abolition. Until now, all countries, even those who assured us that they were against sanctions, when it came to agreeing on a common position, obeyed the consensus. I will briefly describe my idea of these procedures.
When a package of sanctions (and there are three of them, each with its own validity period) is being reviewed for extension or non-extension, the voices of representatives of those countries are heard who talk about their meaninglessness and ineffectiveness. But then representatives of other countries - I think you know as well as I do which countries we are talking about - agree that sanctions are ineffective, but this, they say, is only because they are not strict enough. And they propose to tighten them. Representatives of the European structures who are conducting these discussions, throwing up their hands, say: “Well, since there is such a range of opinions, let’s leave everything as it is, and in six months we will return to this issue,” Chizhov noted.
“On this they disagree, and then representatives of these European structures begin to tell me dramatic stories about the serious threat of tightening sanctions, which they, they say, managed to avert at the cost of titanic efforts. And that a consensus has been developed, and for the EU this, you see, is the main thing. But this consensus is a dead end and does not solve the problem. In fact, in every such case we are talking about missed opportunities,” the Russian diplomat concluded.
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