German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier insists on continued talks with Russia over Ukrainian crisis resolution.<\/p>\n
Trust between the West and Russia \u201cis doubtlessly undermined seriously,\u201d the German foreign minister said in an interview with German Sunday edition Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung published on Sunday. However, this should be realised that \u201cwithout co-operation with Moscow this is hardly possible to reach a political solution in Ukrainian conflict,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Commenting on EU sectoral sanctions imposed on Russia, the minister added that EU states had different histories of co-operation with Russia \u201cwhich determines their relations with Russia also in different ways.\u201d Moscow may take retaliatory measures, therefore, \u201cno one should be surprised that sanctions will take some costs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 airliner\u2019s crash in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region on July 17 has changed the situation dramatically, the German minister said. \u201cBut fury and indignation cannot and should not be the last say in foreign policy,\u201d Steinmeier added.<\/p>\n
Switzerland opposes blind duplication of EU anti-Russian sanctions. It will make Switzerland\u2019s position weaker as a neutral-status country, said chief of the Swiss Federal Department for Economic Affairs, Education and Research.<\/p>\n
Johann Schneider-Ammann said in an interview with Swiss newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag published on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis role will be weakened, if we duplicate EU sanctions,\u201d Schneider-Ammann said, recalling that Switzerland presides in the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier insists on continued talks with Russia over Ukrainian crisis resolution. Trust between the West and Russia \u201cis doubtlessly undermined seriously,\u201d the German foreign minister said in an interview with German Sunday edition Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung published on Sunday. However, this should be realised that \u201cwithout co-operation with Moscow this is … Continue reading “Germany, Switzerland oppose blind EU sanctions against Russia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[70,9491,2376,66,1061],"class_list":["post-15050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-eu","tag-mh17","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-sanctions"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15051,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions\/15051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}