(Washington/Berlin Composite Electric) Sources said that the leaders of the Seven Kingdoms (G7) planned to be on The summit held in Hiroshima, Japan to strengthen sanctions on Russia, the goal is to combat Russia's energy and trade exports.
Reuters quoted sources that new measures will target third -party countries to assist Russia to avoid sanctions. The goal is to weaken Russia's future energy production capacity and curb trade activities that support the Russian army in Ukraine.
It is known that members of the G7 will agree to adjust sanctions and automatically list certain category products that are not approved on the export list, which will make it more difficult for Russia to find loopholes from sanctions.
Reuters reports that although the allies have not agreed to implement more stringent practices at a wide level, U.S. officials predict that it involves the most sensitive areas of Russia's military, and the G7 countries will assume that exports are prohibited unless they are on the designated list.
A U.S. official who requires anonymous anonymous said: "You should expect that in a few areas, especially in areas related to the Russian defense industrial base, it should change." Reuters said that G7 is still discussing new new discussionsThe rules will be applicable.
Analysis says that some American allies do not accept the practice of extensive prohibition and then exemption to allow trade by class to exempt trade.For example, the European Union's method of sanctioning Russia's own is focusing on individuals and countries that focus on avoiding existing trade restrictions.A senior German official said: "We think, let's prohibit everything first and then allow exemptions to do not work. We must be very accurate and avoid unexpected side effects."
Western countries prohibit the first Russian pipeline natural gas trade
In addition, the Financial Times reported that the G7 and the European Union will ban the import of Russia's natural gas in the pipeline that has been cut off in Moscow.This is the first time that the Western countries have banned pipelines from natural gas trade since the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine War.The G7 national leaders will make a decision at the Hiroshima Summit.
This is to prevent Russia from returning to pipeline natural gas exports to countries such as Poland and Germany, while ensuring that Russia's energy income will not increase.An unnamed official said that this move is also "ensuring that partners will not change their minds in the future."
Moscow cut off the supply of these countries last year, so that the entire Europe A>.The Financial Times revealed that the G7 statement shows that they will further reducing dependence on Russian energy sources.
Western allies in Ukraine want to tighten sanctions on Russia. Although it puts pressure on Russian President Putin, it has not prevented Russia from continuing to capture Ukraine.Former Russian President Medvedev also stated last month that G7 prohibits exporting to Russia, which will lead to Moscow Termid the Ceremony Export Agreement of Black Sea .
On the other hand, the analysis said that although the G7 Treasury Secretary meeting held last weekend did not list China as a threat in the bulletin, there were signs that Chinese Project will be the focus of the Hiroshima G7 summit this week.
Analysts said that the G7 financial ministers weekends with the talks with Brazil, Komoro, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and South Korea, focusing on debt and high -level infrastructure investment.https://www.zaobao.com/realtime/china/story20220927-1317114 "R = NOFOLOW TARGET = _blank> Belt and Road " initiative.
But analysts believe that these emerging economies will carefully weigh the interest relationships.Takeda Haru, chief economist of the Institute of Economic Research Institute of Ito: "G7 is not easy to form a fence in the southern hemisphere. These emerging economies will not stand on the West or China.P>
