{"id":49772,"date":"2014-11-17T12:10:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=49772"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:29:31","slug":"merkel-rules-out-further-sanctions-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/11\/merkel-rules-out-further-sanctions-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel Rules Out Further Sanctions on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The German official nonetheless\u00a0plans to extend travel bans to newly elected Ukraine officials.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>11 Nov 2014<\/em> &#8211; Germany\u2019s\u00a0leader,\u00a0Angela Merkel, doesn&#8217;t plan any further economic sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, she has expressed her dissatisfaction with the various parties not holding to the ceasefire agreement designed to end the crisis and with the recent elections performed by pro-Russian rebels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not satisfied with the situation of the Minsk agreement because large parts of the Minsk agreement are not being implemented,&#8221; declared the German Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel\u2019s declarations followed European Union\u2019s (E.U.) policy chief Federica Mogherini\u2019s saying Monday that \u00a0European Union foreign ministers will, next week, discuss \u201cwhether to increase the sanctions\u201d as part of \u201chow to support Ukraine in these difficult times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However Germany\u2019s chancellor added that she will discuss with Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine\u2019s President, and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin to make clear the intention to have European Union travel bans extended to newly-elected separatists officials in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beyond that, further economic sanctions are not planned at the moment, we are focusing on the winter and the humanitarian situation there and how to get a real ceasefire,&#8221; Merkel said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Merkel-Rules-Out-Further-Sanctions-on-Russia-20141111-0015.htmlt\" >Go to Original \u2013 telesurtv.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German official nonetheless plans to extend travel bans to newly elected Ukraine officials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}