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    Fresh sanctions threat for Russia after plane disaster

    By Reuters in London and Paris (China Daily) Updated: 2014-07-21 07:24

    Fresh sanctions threat for Russia after plane disaster

    Britain, Germany and France agreed on Sunday that they should be ready to ratchet up sanctions on Russia over the downing of a Malaysian jet carrying 298 passengers when European foreign ministers meet in Brussels on Tuesday.

    On Sunday, Ukraine accused separatist rebels of hiding evidence that a Russian missile was used in the shooting down of the airline that has intensified a showdown between the Kremlin and Western powers.

    Ministers should be ready to announce a fresh round of sanctions at a meeting of the EU's Foreign Affairs Council, said a statement from British Prime Minister David Cameron's office, issued after calls with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

    "They ... agreed that the EU must reconsider its approach to Russia and that foreign ministers should be ready to impose further sanctions on Russia when they meet on Tuesday," the statement said.

    The leaders also agreed to press Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure investigators had free access to the crash site.

    Before the jet crashed last week, EU leaders had already agreed to sanction some Russian companies and block new loans to Russia by multilateral lenders, but the measures were still less stringent than United States restrictions announced at the same time.

    The 28-nation EU has been under pressure from the US and Ukraine to take a harder line but some EU governments are wary of potential retaliation from Russia, the bloc's biggest energy supplier, if they imposed trade sanctions.

    Speaking earlier on Sunday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said that unless Moscow's position radically changed, Britain would be pushing more reluctant European states to agree to new sanctions.

    He warned that Russia could end up in international isolation.

    "Some of our European allies have been less enthusiastic, and I hope that the shock of this incident will see them now more engaged, more willing to take the actions which are necessary to bring home to the Russians that when you do this kind of thing it has consequences," Hammond told the BBC.

    In a telephone conversation on Saturday, President Putin and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutt "stressed that it should be an international investigation which should be conducted by the International Civil Aviation Organization with the participation of all interested parties".

    The two leaders noted "the need to do everything possible to ensure the work of the representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and to give international experts access to the crash site", according to an ITAR-Tass report.

     Fresh sanctions threat for Russia after plane disaster

    Flowers and mementos placed at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 are pictured near the settlement of Rozspyne in the Donetsk region on Saturday. Ukraine accused Russia and rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western powers. Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters

     Fresh sanctions threat for Russia after plane disaster

    A young girl takes part in a candlelit vigil for the victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. A Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on Thursday in rebel-held east Ukraine. Manan Vatsyayana / Agence France-Presse

    (China Daily 07/21/2014 page10)

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