A delegation from the Treasury and the US State Department intends to visit Europe to discuss technical coordination on sanctions against Russia. This was during the briefing. informed on Monday, February 7, US Foreign Office spokesman Ned Price.
According to him, the United States delegation included representatives of federal departments, including the State Department and the Treasury Department.
“An interagency group based in Europe is meeting with our partners to agree on the technical aspects of measures that, in an unfavorable development of events, we may have to use,” the diplomat said.
Earlier in the day, German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said at a briefing in Kiev that Berlin was ready to pay a high economic price for Ukraine’s security.
She clarified that Germany will do everything in order to “prevent further escalation.” The minister added that the parties “have jointly prepared a number of tough measures against Russia in this case, these sanctions are unprecedented and agreed with all partners.”
At the same time, on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron noted that dialogue with Russia is the main means of achieving stability and security in Europe. According to him, all parties “should behave responsibly.”
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said at the same time that the United Kingdom and the United States invented the “Russian threat” for a “heroic” fight against it. The West is trying to divert attention from its own political crises and “drain billions into armaments,” the diplomat said.
The United States and a number of European countries have recently expressed concern over the alleged increase in Russia’s “aggressive actions” against Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations, saying that it does not threaten anyone, and such statements are used as an excuse to place as much NATO military equipment as possible near the borders of the Russian Federation.
On January 28, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia was not going to start a war with Ukraine, and Western countries and the United States were “hysterically” developing the topic of a threat to Ukraine from the Russian Federation instead of forcing Ukraine to comply with the Minsk agreements.
Source: IZ
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