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European Union foreign ministers looked unlikely to join the United States on Monday (16 April) in imposing new economic sanctions on Russia or Syria over chemical weapons attacks that prompted the first co-ordinated Western air strikes in Syria, skryf Robin Emmott en Gabriela Baczynska.

After Britain and France joined the United States in missile salvoes meant to cripple Syrian chemical arms facilities and prevent their further use, Western leaders sought to emphasis diplomacy, with an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg.

"Dit is baie belangrik om te stres (die stakings is) nie 'n poging om die gety van die oorlog in Sirië te verander of 'n regime te verander nie," het die Britse minister van buitelandse sake, mnr. Boris Johnson, aan verslaggewers gesê.

"Ek is bevrees dat die Siriese oorlog op sy verskriklike, miserabele manier sal voortgaan. Maar dit was die wêreld wat sê dat ons genoeg van chemiese wapens gehad het, "het hy gesê.

In Luxembourg, ministers were set to release a statement to keep open the option of new travel bans and asset freezes on Syrians the West accuses of links to the 7 April poison gas attacks on a rebel enclave outside Damascus. But diplomats foresaw no decisions on Monday, especially against Russians.

“We have to keep pushing to get a ceasefire and humanitarian aid through the (United Nations) Security Council and eventually a peace process,” Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok told reporters.

“The only solution is a peace process through the Security Council,” said Blok, who met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Friday (13 April).

The United States is due to announce new economic sanctions on Russia aimed at companies it alleges were dealing with equipment related to chemical weapons, according to US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

Die EU-diplomate het egter gewaarsku dat totdat die Europese regerings meer idee gehad het van wat die Verenigde State van Amerika beplan, dit nie moontlik was om vinnig te volg. In die verlede het die EU-maatreëls soms maande na Washington gekom.

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Russia is Europe’s biggest energy supplier and, while the EU has imposed significant sanctions on Moscow’s financial, energy and defence sectors over the crisis in Ukraine, close ties between Russia and some EU members complicate discussions about new punitive measures.

The European Union has already imposed a range of economic sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, cutting off most diplomatic and economic links, but to no avail.

Binne die EU, wat volgende week 'n internasionale skenkerkonferensie vir Sirië sal hou, is die meeste regerings nou saamgestem dat Assad nie kan voortgaan as president vir vredesgesprekke om te slaag nie.

"Daar sal 'n oplossing wees vir almal wat 'n invloed op die streek het," het die Duitse minister van buitelandse sake, Heiko Maas, in Luxemburg gesê. "Niemand kan iemand voorstel wat chemiese wapens teen sy eie mense gebruik om deel van hierdie oplossing te wees nie."

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