EU hits Russian intelligence chiefs with sanctions歐盟擊中俄情報首領制裁

AP
July 26, 2014, 2:09 pm TWN

Among the 15 new people subjected to an EU-wide asset freeze and travel ban were Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Russian Federal Security Service, and Sergei Beseda, head of the FSB department that oversees international operations and intelligence activity. Four members of Russia's Security Council were also included on the EU list.

BRUSSELS -- The European Union on Friday extended its Ukraine-related sanctions to target top Russian intelligence officials and leaders of the pro-Russia revolt in eastern Ukraine, official documents showed.

The new measures, designed to put pressure on Moscow and its allies in Ukraine, were announced in the EU's Official Journal, and took effect immediately. Eighteen organizations or businesses, including rebel formations in Ukraine's east, were added to the trade bloc's sanctions list at the same time.

The action brought the total number of people under EU sanction in connection with Russia's annexation of Crimea and the revolt in eastern Ukraine to 87. Two Crimea-based energy businesses had already had their EU holdings frozen.

Earlier on Friday, EU ambassadors reached a preliminary deal to go even further in sanctioning Russia, targeting its access to European capital markets and trade in the defense sector, dual-use goods and sensitive technologies.

EU spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said the proposals were transmitted to EU officials to codify into regulations, with the ambassadors scheduled to meet again Tuesday to review the results. She said EU member states must decide whether the measures need to be approved by a summit meeting of the organization's 28 member countries to go into effect.

On Tuesday, EU foreign ministers ordered the preparation of stepped-up economic sanctions, frustrated over Russia's refusal to heed their demands to help bring about an end to the fighting in Ukraine, and with many Europeans leaders and citizens outraged by the shooting down of a Malaysian jetliner over eastern Ukraine.

In a document prepared for the ambassadors, EU officials suggested restricting Russian state-owned financial institutions' access to European capital markets. Last year alone, the document said, 47 percent — or 7.5 billion euros ($10.2 billion) worth — of all the bonds issued by such institutions came from EU financial markets.

歐盟擊中俄情報首領制裁

美聯社
2014年7月26日，下午2:09 TWN

布魯塞爾 - 歐盟上週五擴大了烏克蘭有關的制裁措施瞄準俄羅斯高級情報官員和親俄羅斯的反叛在烏克蘭東部的領導人，官方文件顯示。

在15個新人們經受了歐盟範圍內的資產凍結和旅行禁令是亞歷山大·博爾特尼科夫，俄聯邦安全局的負責人，和Sergei貝瑟達，外頻部門，負責監督國際業務和智能業務的負責人。俄羅斯安全委員會的四名成員也被列入歐盟清單上。

新的措施，旨在施加壓力，莫斯科和其盟國在烏克蘭，是在歐盟的官方公報上公佈，並立即生效。十八個團體或企業，包括在烏克蘭東部叛軍編隊，分別加入到貿易集團的制裁名單的同時。

行動帶來了根據歐盟制裁的人在克里米亞與俄羅斯的吞併和起義烏克蘭東部到87的連接總數。兩個克里米亞為主的能源企業已經有他們持有歐盟凍結。

上週五早些時候，歐盟大使達成了初步協議在制裁俄羅斯走得更遠，瞄準了進入歐洲資本市場和貿易中的國防部門，雙重用途物資和敏感技術。

歐盟發言人瑪雅Kocijancic說，提案轉交給歐盟官員編纂成法規，與預定大使再次見面星期二審查結果。她說，歐盟成員國必須決定是否採取的措施需要由該組織的28個成員國的首腦會議，以生效的批准。

週二，歐盟外長下令加緊經濟制裁，沮喪過俄羅斯拒絕聽從他們的要求，以幫助實現結束在烏克蘭的戰鬥，並編寫了許多歐洲人領導人和公民激怒了拍攝的下降馬來西亞客機在烏克蘭東部。

在為大使編寫了一份文件，歐盟官員建議限制俄羅斯國有金融機構的進入歐洲資本市場。僅去年一年，該文件稱，47％ - 或7.5十億歐元（約合10.2十億）價值 - 所有這些機構發行的債券來自歐盟的金融市場。