Mid Canadaprocardia: In Crimea, invited Canada in response to sanctions pressure reducing drug
The government of Canada under a policy of exerting pressure on Russia over the situation in Ukraine has imposed sanctions against 15 people, including six state Duma deputies from the Crimea. This was reported on the website of the canadian Ministry of foreign Affairs. Also given the surnames of the additions to the sanctions list.
The list includes state Duma deputies elected from Crimea and Sevastopol — former Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Ruslan Balbec, the former Deputy speakers of the state Council Konstantin Bakharev and Andrei Kozenko, as well as Svetlana Savchenko, Paul Speraw and Dmitry Belik. In addition, the list mentioned Anna Anokhina, Svetlana Borodulina, Valentin Demidov, Irina Kiviko, Mikhail Nazarov, Victor Palagin, Dmitry Polonsky, Oleg Shapovalov and Andrew Vasyuta.
As noted, the decision was made “to maintain the necessary pressure on Russia until it fully fails to fulfill its international obligations of Ukraine”.
The defendants in the list described as “persons related to separatism”. In respect of them begins to act a ban on entry to Canada, and their assets, if there are canadian jurisdictions that are subject to freezing.
Clarifies that these sanctions were imposed in response to the elections of 18 September in the state Duma and officials. “Canada does not support the legitimacy or the outcome of the elections held in the occupied Crimean Peninsula, as it will never recognize the illegal annexation of the Ukrainian Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol”, — emphasized in Department.
It also indicates that the decision to expand sanctions adopted in coordination with partners, “is an effective way to insist that together with the US and the EU maintained unity in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine.”
New sanctions of Canada also introduced in order to maintain the effectiveness of existing sanctions, and, most importantly, to maintain the pressure on Russia in order to fulfil their obligations under the Minsk agreements, stresses the Ministry of foreign Affairs.
On 8 November the Finance Ministers of EU countries agreed on a new targeted sanctions against Crimean officials. What the officials in question were not reported.
On 14 November the United States after the EU imposed sanctions against six state Duma deputies from the Crimea. The list includes former Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Ruslan Balbec, the former Deputy speakers of the state Council of the Republic Konstantin Bakharev and Andrei Kozenko, as well as Svetlana Savchenko, Paul Speraw and Dmitry Belik.
On 17 November, the state Secretariat for economic Affairs of Switzerland introduced these people in the list of persons against which the sanctions in connection with the conflict in Ukraine.