Monday, 19 April 2021, 19:27
Military escalation: Kuleba offers EU a plan to deter Russia
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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council proposed a step-by-step plan on how to discourage Moscow from further escalation.
Kuleba wrote this on his Twitter account, Ukrinform reports.
“In today’s EU Foreign Affairs Council I briefed colleagues on Russia’s latest dangerous course. I proposed a step-by-step plan on how to discourage Moscow from further escalation. Key element: preparing a new set of sectoral sanctions. Individual ones are not sufficient anymore,” he wrote.
The minister noted that the meeting was held online.
Additional sanctions on Russia might be necessary if Navalny is denied medical care - Rinkevics 2021-04-19 LETA/TBT Staff
RIGA - If Russia s opposition leader Aleksey Navalny does not receive proper medical assistance, it might be necessary to prepare additional sanctions on Russia, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics (New Unity) and other European Union (EU) foreign ministers said in a videoconference of the EU Foreign Affairs Council.
The Latvian foreign minister told LETA that during the videoconference the bloc s foreign ministers discussed Navalny s case, his health condition and the necessity for further political and diplomatic action and pressure on Russian authorities, so that Navalny was provided the necessary medical treatment.
Czech bombing
The Czech Republic yesterday expelled 18 Russian diplomats over suspicions that Moscow was behind a 2014 explosion at an ammunition depot in the eastern Zlin region. Prime Minister Andrej Babis said Czech security services had found “unequivocal evidence” that unit 29155 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service were involved in the attack.
The blast “tore apart” the depot, with “windows in nearby buildings blown out and local schools evacuated”, the BBC reports. Two men who worked at the site, in a forest at Vrbetice, were killed.
Czech Interior Minister Jan Hamacek has compared the attack to the 2018 poisonings in the English town of Salisbury, while PM Babis has released a statement saying “the Czech Republic is a sovereign state and must respond accordingly to these unprecedented findings”.
EU set to ramp up activity in Indo-Pacific
By Elaine Knutt on 19/04/2021
Collision point? The EU’s new Indo-Pacific strategy points to regional tensions, envisaging a more pro-active role for the bloc. Picture by European Council President
The EU is to step up its engagement with China, South-East Asia and an arc of neighbouring countries under its new strategy for the Indo-Pacific region, signalling a more assertive stance to counteract “rising challenges and tensions” in the region.
The 10-page document sets out the EU’s new ambitions under six headings, including upholding human rights and democratic values; protecting trade routes and supply chains; and contributing to long term prosperity by advancing digital and sustainable technologies. The
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