Kocijancic confirmed that the list of 89 names had been shared by the Russian authorities, but no clarification regarding this decision had been given, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels reported.
"Our position remains the same. We deemed this measure as totally arbitrary and unjustified especially in the absence of any further clarifications and transparency," Kocijancic said on Monday.
"This concerns everybody. We don't discriminate between commissioners and others," she added.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on Russia's "stop list" of 89 EU officials who have been denied entry to Russia are Karl-Georg Wellmann, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and head of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group; German parliamentarian and Bundestag member Michael Fuchs; co-chairs of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament Rebecca Harms of Germany and Daniel Cohn-Bendit of France/Germany; the incumbent Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union Uwe Corsepius; Secretary of State at Germany's Federal Ministry of Defense Katrin Suder, German politician from the Christian Social Union in Bavaria Bernd Posselt; and Inspector (Commander) of Germany's Air Force, Lieutenant General Karl Müllner.
Blacklisted are also former Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy (February 2010 until October 2014) Štefan Füle; Polish diplomat, politician and MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski; former President of the European Parliament (2009 and 2012) and MEP Jerzy Buzek; former Belgian Prime Minister (1999 to 2008), MEP and the Chair of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Guy Verhofstadt, and others.
[unian.info]
1/6/15
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ReplyDeleteRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Russia slapped an entry ban on European citizens who actively "supported the state coup in Ukraine" and helped to "create conditions for the introduction of restrictions on Russian citizens."
"We did not want to make the list public. We naturally could not break the main law of international relations – the principle of mutuality," Lavrov said, according to Russian news agency TASS.
"The European Union, which usually withholds comments, was happy to comment on it. I perceive this as a certain violation of ethical norms," he added.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the EU said on Monday it deemed the list of 89 politicians, diplomats and military officials who have been denied entry to Russia as "totally arbitrary and unjustified." The EU External Action Service reported that Russia hadn't provided any clarifications regarding the "stop list."
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Liste noire: la Russie réagit aux critiques européennes...
ReplyDeleteLa Russie a réagi hier aux critiques européennes sur sa liste noire, la liste des 89 responsables ou anciens responsables désormais interdits de voyage en Russie. Pour Moscou, cette liste est la réplique aux mesures d'interdiction qui frappent 150 personnalités russes ou de Crimée. Une nouvelle crise diplomatique alors qu'un calme tout relatif règne dans l'est de la Crimée.
Ils sont 89, dont le Belge et chef du groupe libéral au Parlement européen, Guy Verhofstad. Il y a 4 français, 9 Britanniques, mais surtout 18 polonais et des ressotissants des pays baltes.
Alors pourquoi eux ? Serguei Lavrov, ministre des Affaires étrangères russe l'a expliqué lors d'une conférence de presse hier à Moscou : "Parce qu'ils ont été selon le Kremlin, les plus actifs dans leur soutien au coup d’État qui a marqué le début de la persécution et de la discrimination envers les Russes en Ukraine." Une phrase d'anthologie diplomatique..............rtbf.be
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The European Union's legislature is taking three small measures against Russian officials in retaliation for Moscow's banning of 89 politicians from 17 European countries from entering the nation...
ReplyDeleteEU Parliament President Martin Schulz said Tuesday that pending the lifting of the blacklist, the EU parliament will restrict access to its premises for two top Russian diplomats, assess access to the legislature of members of Russia's Duma and the Federation Council on a case by case basis and suspend cooperation with an EU-Russia committee.
Russia said it set up the blacklist in response to EU economic sanctions and travel bans imposed on Russia for its actions in Ukraine. Relations between the EU and Russia have progressively worsened over the past decade.
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