The FINANCIAL — Britain’s new foreign minister in his first major address has urged the European Union to increase sanctions against Russia, saying the bloc should stand “shoulder to shoulder” with the United States, which hit Moscow with new economic sanctions this month.
In a speech at the U.S. Peace Institute in Washington on August 21, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that, after Russia’s alleged poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in England this year with a chemical nerve agent, the EU should apply more pressure to try to force Russia to honor international rules.
Responding to Hunt’s speech, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Britain of trying to impose its policy toward Russia on the EU and the United States.
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