BRUSSELS, Belgium –EU member states agreedWednesdayto extend damaging economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis by another six months to the end of January 2016, officials said.
The agreement by ambassadors from the 28 European Union nations meeting in Brussels will be formalized by foreign ministers from the bloc when they meet next week, the officials said.
“EU foreign ministers will finalize the decision in Luxembourgon Monday,” Poland’s permanent representative to the EU said on Twitter, while several sources also confirmed the agreement.
The following day, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia are slated to hold talks in Paris, …read more
Source: The Philippine Daily Inquirer
