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EU countries to debate of 12th package of Russia sanctions next week - officials
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BRUSSELS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - European Union countries will start debating next week a proposal for a 12th package of sanctions on Russia that will focus on a ban of Russian diamonds, EU diplomats and an EU official told Reuters.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, EU countries have already applied 11 packages of sanctions against Moscow to diminish the Kremlin’s ability to finance the war.
But so far, the EU has not sanctioned Russian state-owned diamond miner Alrosa, even though major western jewellers are already boycotting stones coming from Russia.
The EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell told the Financial Times on Wednesday that the bloc received the go-ahead for diamonds from the G7 - the United States, Canada, Britain, Japan, France Germany and Italy - at a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Japan.
EU diplomats said the 27-nation bloc had been waiting for a G7 green light to move ahead with the diamond ban.
Then it’ll be for Council to adopt," one EU official told Reuters, adding the discussions among governments would start next week.
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