(Kiri-Kanan)
Presiden Perancis Francois Hollande, Presiden Ukraine Petro Poroshenko,
Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama, Perdana Menteri Britain, David
Cameron, Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel dan Perdana Menteri Itali Matteo Renzi
bertemu untuk membincangkan Ukrain pada sidang kemuncak NATO di Celtic Manor
Resort, berhampiran Newport , di Wales September 4, 2014 (L-R) French President Francois Hollande,
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, U.S. President Barack Obama, British
Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime
Minister Matteo Renzi meet to discus Ukraine at the NATO summit at the Celtic
Manor resort, near Newport, in Wales September 4, 2014 (Reuters /Alain Jocard)
Srikandi - Amerika Syarikat merancang pusingan baru sekatan
yang bertujuan untuk Persekutuan Rusia terhadap krisis yang sedang berlaku di
Ukraine, White House berkata pada hari Khamis, dan Kesatuan Eropah dilaporkan
di ambang melakukan perkara yang sama.
Reuters melaporkan pada hari Khamis bahawa White
House sedang berusaha gelombang baru sekatan terhadap Rusia, yang boleh
dikenakan selaras dengan sekatan dijangka diumumkan oleh wakil-wakil Kesatuan
Eropah lewat minggu ini. Berita yang membuat pengumuman itu sebagai White House
mengambil bahagian dalam persidangan-panggilan dengan wartawan.
Menurut Reuters, Timbalan penasihat keselamatan
negara White House Ben Rhodes memberitahu pemberita bahawa hukuman yang baru
sedang dimuk-tamadkan, tetapi diabaikan untuk memberikan butir-butir mengenai
apa sektor khusus akan disasarkan.
"Perkara utama adalah bahawa Rusia mesti
terus menghadapi peningkatan kos sendiri," kata Rhodes. "Jika Rusia memuncak
kita boleh meningkat tekanan kita."
Sebelum ini, sekatan yang dikenakan oleh Amerika
Syarikat dan Kesatuan Eropah telah mensasarkan beberapa bank terbesar di Rusia,
dan juga pengeluar minyak terbesar di negara ini, Rosneft.
Detik-detik sebelum dilaporkan bahawa Amerika
Syarikat sedang berusaha pada pusingan baru sekatan, Telegraph melaporkan dari UK bahawa wartawan yang telah
menunjukkan sulit dokumen 3 halaman yang mencadangkan "semua syarikat
minyak Rusia & pertahanan negeri yg dikuasai akan dilarang dpd menaikkan dana dalam pasaran modal Eropah."
"[Ke] melarang pembiayaan hutang (melalui
bon, ekuiti dan pinjaman bersindiket) kepada syarikat-syarikat pertahanan dan
kepada semua syarikat-syarikat yang utama aktiviti adalah penerokaan,
pengeluaran dan pengangkutan produk minyak dan minyak dan di mana kerajaan
Rusia merupakan pemegang saham majoriti," kertas yang dipetik daripada
dokumen EU. "Pelanjutan ini dengan ketara akan meningkatkan beban
diletakkan di negara Rusia utk membiayai syarikat2."
Bruno Waterfield daripada Telegraph melaporkan
dari Brussels bahawa kedua-dua Amerika Syarikat dan EU akan bersetuju untuk
mengenakan sekatan esok, Jumaat, "melainkan jika Rusia menarik balik
tenteranya."
"Esok di Majlis Eropah . . . kami akan
mengumumkan anctions dan meletakkan mereka ke dalam tindakan jika tiada
kemajuan [di Ukraine], tetapi segala-galanya bergantung kepada jam yang akan
datang," Presiden Perancis Francois Hollande yang dipetik ‘quoted’ sebagai berkata oleh Reuters.
Kuasa-kuasa Barat mendakwa bahawa Kremlin
mempunyai peranan langsung dalam permusuhan semakin meningkat di timur Ukraine,
di mana tentera yang berpangkalan di Kiev mempunyai selama beberapa minggu kini
telah terlibat dalam pertempuran dengan pemisah dianggap disokong oleh
kuasa-kuasa Rusia. Moscow telah bulat-bulat menafikan dakwaan ini.
"Ia adalah lanjutan daripada sekatan kewangan
yang sedia ada," Neil ricih, ketua pasaran baru muncul ekonomi di Modal
Ekonomi, memberitahu The Moscow Times manuver dijangka EU. "Sekatan
sebelumnya satu 'precedent'."
Presiden Amerika Syarikat Barack Obama pada masa
ini di Wales di mana ahli-ahli pakatan NATO bertemu sepanjang minggu ini untuk
menimbang pilihan lanjut mengenai keadaan semasa di timur Ukraine, serta
ancaman antarabangsa yang ditimbulkan oleh militan Negara Islam dan isu-isu
lain.
US, EU preparing New round of Economic Sanctions
Against
RUSSIA . . .
The United States is planning a new round of
sanctions aimed at the Russian Federation over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine,
the White House said on Thursday, and the European Union is reportedly on the
verge of doing the same.
Reuters reported on Thursday that the White House
is working on a new wave of sanctions against Russia, which may be imposed in
tandem with embargoes expected to be announced by European Union
representatives later this week. The newswire made the announcement as the
White House participated in a conference-call with reporters.
According to Reuters, Deputy White House national
security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters that the new penalties were being
finalized, but neglected to give details concerning what specific sectors will
be targeted.
"The key point is that Russia must continue
to face costs for its own escalation," Rhodes said. "If Russia
escalates we can escalate our pressure."
Previously, sanctions imposed by the US and EU
have targeted some of the largest banks in Russia, as well as the country’s
largest oil producer, Rosneft.
Moments before it was reported that the US is
working on a new round of sanctions, the Telegraph reported from the UK that its journalists
were shown a confidential three-page document suggesting “all state-controlled
Russian oil and defense companies will be banned from raising funds in European
capital market.”
"[To] prohibit debt financing (through bonds,
equities and syndicated loans) to defense companies and to all companies whose
main activity is the exploration, production and transportation of oil and oil
products and in which the Russian state is the majority shareholder," the
paper quoted from the EU document. "This extension would significantly
increase the burden placed on the Russian state to finance its companies."
Bruno Waterfield of the Telegraph reported from
Brussels that both the US and EU will agree to impose the sanctions tomorrow,
Friday, “unless Russia withdraws its military.”
“Tomorrow at the European Council . . . we will
announces anctions and put them into action if there is no progress [on
Ukraine], but everything will depend on the coming hours,” French President
Francois Hollande was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Western powers allege that the Kremlin has a
direct role in the escalating hostilities in eastern Ukraine, where the
Kiev-based military has for weeks now been engaged in combat against
separatists presumed to be supported by Russian forces. Moscow has adamantly
denied this claim.
"It is an extension of the financial
sanctions that are already in place," Neil Shearing, the chief emerging
markets economist at Capital Economics, told The Moscow Times of the EU’s
expected maneuver. "The previous sanctions have set a precedent."
US President Barack Obama is currently in Wales,
where NATO alliance members are meeting throughout this week to weigh further
options concerning the current situation in eastern Ukraine, as well as the
international threat posed by Islamic State militants and other issues.
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