2023-05-15 17:22:00
The western industrial nations want to permanently close the pipelines with which Russia tried to blackmail the EU after the attack on Ukraine.
Brussels/Hiroshima. When the heads of state and government of the seven leading (Western) industrial nations meet in Hiroshima next Friday, two absentees will be the focus of the deliberations: China and Russia. While relations with the People’s Republic are strained but still intact, Moscow has become a pariah by invading Ukraine. In the second year of the Russian war of aggression, the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada (the EU has observer status in the G7) are no longer concerned with deterrence, but with defense and consequences for the aggressor – consequences of an economic nature, because active participation in the armed conflict is out of the question for the West
Both the G7 and the EU have already initiated several rounds of sanctions – the eleventh package of sanctions is currently being negotiated in Brussels. At this week’s meeting in Japan, however, the course should be set for Russia’s permanent decoupling from Europe.
As the “Financial Times” reported, citing internal drafts of the G7 final declaration, the western industrialized countries want to cut the gas pipelines from Russia to the west – permanently. Accordingly, the pipelines that Russia disconnected last year to put pressure on the EU should not be reactivated. The gas supplies used by Moscow as a weapon are to remain out of service at least until “the conflict is resolved,” the draft says.
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