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He said so on Monday after the EU Council of Foreign Ministers in Brussels, which discussed the arrest of A. Navaln.
“The consensus in the Council of Foreign Ministers was that if they arrested him for a long time, then there would already be consensus on sanctions. Today there has not yet been such a consensus, ”confirms G. Landsbergis in the Minister’s comment distributed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to G. Landsbergis, in the council the Baltic states “proposed the immediate application of the global human rights sanctions regime, which was recently adopted by the EU”.
“On that basis, sanctions could be imposed on the people who arrested Mr. Navalna, the people who initiated his arrest, as well as those who initiated his arrest,” the minister said.
“There was no unanimity in the Council and it was agreed that at this stage the Council would unanimously demand his release (A. Navalno – BNS) – so that he would be immediately released,” Landsberg added.
According to him, a second judicial hearing for A. Navalnas is scheduled for February 2, after which the Kremlin critic can be detained: “For a very long time, it is said that up to 13 years.”
Russian opposition leader A. Navaln was arrested last Sunday at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport as he returned to Russia from Germany, where he was treated with Novičiok, a substance that paralyzes the nerves after severe poisoning.
The Russian Prison Service said he was detained for violating the terms of his probation in a fraud case in 2014.
EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell will visit Moscow in early February and press the Kremlin for the arrest of Russian opposition leader A. Navaln.
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