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EU FMs Decide to Extend Individual Sanctions Over Ukraine Until September

Sputnik News

21:45 29.01.2015(updated 22:10 29.01.2015)

According to EU top diplomat Mogherini, the European Union has adopted a decision to extend the restrictive measures on Russia targeting persons and entities that until September.

RUSSELS, January 29 (Sputnik) – The EU foreign ministers adopted on Thursday a decision to keep in force sanctions targeting individuals and entities allegedly involved in the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis until September 2015, the EU diplomacy chief said.

'We have decided to extend the restrictive measures targeting persons and entities that were decided in March last year…until September of this year,' EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Frederica Mogherini told reporters following the extraordinary Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels.

'In addition to that we have decided to have a proposal within one week of further names of individuals and entities to be added to this list. That decision will be taken at the next Foreign Affairs Council on February 9,' Mogherini said.

The European Union imposed the first set of travel bans and asset freezes against individuals and entities allegedly responsible for destabilizing Ukraine in March 2014.

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