Portugal opposes the ban on Russian tourists from entering the European Union (EU), the country’s foreign ministry informed the newspaper “Eco”.
The Ministry of International Affairs stressed to the newspaper that sanctions versus Moscow need to “punish the Russian war machine, not the Russian people today”.
“Portugal believes that the main aim of the sanctioning routine really should be to punish the Russian war device and not the Russian people today. Portugal will participate in the dialogue on this situation, which could possibly acquire position at European degree, contributing to the development of a prevalent place concerning EU member states, as we have normally done “, reads a take note from the Portuguese Foreign Ministry.
It has by now been announced that the Czech Republic, the presiding state of the EU, has questioned the blocking amount to take into account a visa ban for Russian citizens. This proposal is not supported by Germany, Greece, Cyprus and several other EU Member States.
Czech International Minister Jans Lipavskis declared that he will suggest such a ban at the conference of the foreign ministers of the EU member states in Prague at the finish of August.
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