‘The EU is doing well on targeted sanctions, the US is also evaluating options’
(ANSA) – WASHINGTON, MAY 24 – “The United States harshly condemns the hijacking of the Ryanair flight in Belarus to allow the arrest of the journalist Roman Protasevich”: said US President Joe Biden, who welcomes the EU request for sanctions targeted economic.
“I asked my team to study appropriate options for those responsible,” Biden added, calling for “an international investigation into the incident.”
“We do not tolerate that Russian roulette is played with the lives of civilians”: said the President of the European Council Charles Michel, presenting the sanctions against Belarus for the “scandalous event that happened”. The EU response “is up to the offense”, he added.
“The EU condemns Russia’s illegal, provocative and destabilizing activities against the EU and its member states”, reaffirms “solidarity with the Czech Republic, supports its response”, and asks the high representative of foreign policy to present by the end of June summit a relationship with options in EU-Russia relations. This is what we read in the conclusions of the EU summit released after the debate on relations with Moscow. (HANDLE).