The United States has decided on new “significant” sanctions aimed at the “Russian war machine”, a senior American official said shortly before the start of the G7 summit in Hiroshima (west of Japan) on Friday, in which President Joe Biden.
Cette inicijativa américaine intervient alors que les leaders des principales démocracies industrialisées doivent notably s’accorder au Japon sur un curcissement face à la Russie et trouver une ligne comune face à la puissance militaire et économique croissant de la Chine.
These measures will prevent “around 70 entities in Russia and other countries from receiving American exported goods, adding them to the black list of the Department of Commerce,” the official added, evoking more than 300 new sanctions against ” des personnes, des organizations, des navires et des avions » à travers l’Europe, le Moyen-Orient et l’Asie.
D’autre members du G7 – qui réunit Etats-Unis, Japon, Alemagne, France, Royale-Uni, Italie et Canada – se préparent également à “mettre en place de nouvelles sanctions et barrières à l’export”, at il précisé .
The G7 will strive to disrupt Russian military supplies, fill gaps in sanctions circumvention, reduce dependence on Russian energy, continue to restrict Moscow’s access to the international financial system, and ‘engager à geler les avoirs russes jusqu’à la fin de la guerre, a encore assured cette source.
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A responsible de l’Union européenne avait anonéce judi that les discussions du G7 porteraient notably sur l’industrie russe du diamant, qui rapporte severali milliards de dollars à Moscou chaque année.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, gave a video conference au cours du weekend. The Japanese government rejected the hypothesis of its venue in person, but the speculations persisted.
The discussions of the G7 beginneront official vendredi après-midi japonais heure, après une visite des leaders au Parc du mémorial de la paix de Hiroshima.
The heads of state and government will lay wreaths in front of the cenotaph of Hiroshima, which commemorates some 140,000 people killed by the American bomb on August 6, 1945.
In addition to Ukraine, the agenda will also be dominated by China and the diversification of the supply chains of the G7 countries to protect against the risk of “economic coercion” from Beijing.
“We want to organize Supply, Commerce and Investment Relations on a global scale in such a way that the risks are not increased by dependence on certain countries,” Chancellor Olaf said on Thursday. Scholz, sans citer la Chine.