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Civil society enchantment: Plug power sanctions loopholes and strengthen enforcement to finish the conflict.
The European Union and G7 should tighten their grip on Russia’s key income streams from exports of fossil fuels, say 290 European, worldwide and Ukrainian NGOs in a joint public enchantment to leaders of the EU and G7. Because the tragic anniversary of two years of conflict hits Ukraine, there’s a clear must ban Russian LNG fuel imports and shut all loopholes in current sanctions to stop additional escalation of Russia’s aggression in Europe past Ukraine. The EU’s and G7’s monetary help for Ukraine dwindles in comparison with the influx to Russia’s conflict chest from ongoing exports of fossil fuels. It’s paramount to now totally finish the financing of the Russian conflict machine via fossil gasoline imports, which remains to be a tragic actuality.
In solidarity with the Ukrainian individuals, civil society teams demand the G7 and EU to:
- Absolutely implement and lower cost caps on Russian crude oil and oil merchandise.
- Stop Russia from additional increasing the shadow fleet of harmful, virtually uninsured and unaccountable previous tankers, working via unlawful and doubtful administration preparations and missing transparency in possession.
- Shut the “refining loophole”, which permits EU and G7 nations to import oil merchandise — primarily diesel, jet gasoline and gasoline — produced from Russian oil at refineries in third nations like India, Turkey or UAE.
- Absolutely ban liquefied pure fuel (LNG) imports from Russia and its transshipment in European ports for exports to different nations.
- Take decisive actions to cut back oil and fuel consumption and finish import dependency to deflate the Russian conflict economic system.
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