14/09/2014
With the decline in the ruble to a record level
Moscow accuses Washington of destroying its economic relations with the Europeans
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused United States of using the Ukrainian crisis to cut the economic relations between his country and the European Union to force Europe to pay more for gas, and that after the entry of new European sanctions against Russia effect on the background of the crisis in Kiev. And ' French ', quoted on a Ministry statement Wednesday said that the United States is seeking to exploit the current situation to cut economic ties between Europe and Russia, forcing the Europeans to buy us gas prices much higher than his Russian counterpart. Lavrov said that Washington hopes to secure the most favorable conditions in the framework of the negotiations on a trade and investment partnership on both sides of the Atlantic, and that Washington is trying through that to impose on Europe shipments of US liquefied gas prices could not be competitive compared to the prices of Russian gas.
Lavrov accused the European Union as to be prepared to sacrifice its economy to politics, stressing that Brussels had decided to prepare a new series of sanctions against Russia on the 5th of September; the day was the signing of a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine on the initiative of President Vladimir Putin. But at the same time, Lavrov expressed confidence that the situation would change, and that the voices of rational rose within the European Union, and said ' we do not believe at all that this move could become strategically ', stressing that his country is interested in strengthening its strategic partnership with the European Union and its development. For his part, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy yatsiniok Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to destroy Ukraine as an independent State, praising the new wave of economic sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States to Russia, and said ' it is a major threat to the Russian economy '.
But Boguslav Zobotka Czech Prime Minister expressed skepticism about the feasibility of new sanctions against Russia, adding that 'these sanctions will undoubtedly lead to the deterioration of the economic situation in Russia but will not have an impact on the political behavior of Russia towards Ukraine ', Zobotka called to a political dialogue with the leaders of the Kremlin, demanding action to prevent the emergence of a new ' iron curtain ' in Europe through Ukraine. With regard to the free trade agreement between the EU and Ukraine, called on Jose Manuel Barroso President of the European Commission, Russia's recognition of the right of Kiev in concluding agreements with international partners, Russia criticized the agreement, which awaits approval next Tuesday and calls for amendments. As a concession to Moscow, the European Union and Ukraine agreed to postpone the implementation of the free trade agreement until the end of 2015 because Daniel lubkivsky, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine quit.
He stressed the European Union and the United States last weekend have tightened sanctions on Russia and entered the baffled on implementation, since the European Union imposed sanctions on dozens of Russian and Ukrainian personalities loyal to Russia, including freezing their assets and prevent them from obtaining visas to EU countries. In the list of persons covered by these sanctions more than 50 including a number of senior Russian officials like Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko, President of the Federal Council (upper house) Igor sichin Director of oil giant Rosneft. As of this week has become the European sanctions list includes more than 110 characters including leaders of separatist groups in the East of Ukraine and Russian intelligence officials and four Russian, the first time that the European Union extends the scope of the sanctions to include businessmen close to the Government in Moscow.
Canada has listed 43 Russia and Ukraine on its list of 40 black, Japan prevented 23 Russian from getting a visa to enter its territory. The US sanctions include a huge Russian groups such as oil giant Rosneft ' and ' Bank ' Gazprom ' Bank of Russian gas giant Gazprom ' and ' State Bank ' VIP ' who is Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister leadership position, and to those penal sanctions strangling these institutions over the long term. The United States added to this list of the largest bank in Russia ' sberbank ' company and Government technology industries ' rustic ' section, gas giant Gazprom oil ' Gazprom ' denied by depriving them of US funds spent more than 90 days. Washington also imposed five Russian companies, including the giant groups ' Lukoil ', and ' Gazprom ', and ' Rosneft ', penalties under which US banned entities providing these companies with support materials or technology to any oil and gas exploration in the Arctic that is gaining great strategic importance.
Either EU sanctions include about 30 companies are concentrated especially in the energy sector of the Russian economy, the most important of those companies, Rosneft, wetransnft, and gas bromine denied, as well as prevent the bloc any funding for three groups of Russian in the defense sector is a ' or b k aubobronbrom ' manufacturer of tanks, the ' United aircraft Corporation parent company group MiG, Su for the aircraft industry, the State aviation industry auralvagonzavod group, which manufactures helicopters. Western leaders had decided in March to suspend Russia's G8 and canceled the Summit scheduled for June in the Russian resort of Sochi. Also, the EU suspended talks with Russia on the liberalization of the visa policy, in turn, Japan suspended negotiations to facilitate obtaining visas and deferred projects to negotiate an economic agreement new investment.
The United States decided to reconsider the conditions of export to Russia of advanced technological equipment that could have military uses, with the European Union on the financial markets before Moscow and prevent any export to that country include energy-sensitive technologies or materials intended for civilian use but can also be used for military ends, the EU imposed a ban on arms sales to Russia. The new sanctions have led to the decline of the ruble to a record level, but Putin downplayed them as attempts by the West to destabilize international relations, Brussels is scheduled to consider sanctions at the end of September. In response to those penal sanctions, Moscow has threatened to ban airlines from European Union to cross its airspace and put to consumer goods and automobiles imported from the West.
