The European Union will make a unanimous decision on imposing new sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Kerch Strait incident in the next couple of weeks, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini said upon arrival at an EU Foreign.
“The objective of sanctions is not that they stay forever, it is to put pressure in order to overcome the situation, so the objective of sanctions is that one day they will be lifted but we do not see positive steps and this is why the member states have so far reiterated their will to keep them,” she said. “There can be decisions by unanimity on new sanctions coming up in the next couple of weeks,” Mogherini pointed out.
“Again we could only wish to see positive developments and will be always ready to reconsider this, but at the moment we see rather the opposite, more negative developments on the ground,” the EU top diplomat added.