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The Prime Minister, António Costa, defended this Thursday that it is essential to maintain sanctions against Russia and Belarus, but warned that it is necessary to ensure that African and Latin American countries do not suffer “unwanted collateral consequences”.
“We can never ignore that in these sanctions against Russia and in the sanctions against Belarus we have to preserve the conditions so that all other third countries, namely African countries and Latin American countries, do not suffer unwanted collateral consequences”, said António Costa, shortly before the start of the European Council meeting, in Brussels, Belgium.
The Portuguese prime minister added that the EU has to consider the possibility of blocking agricultural production “via these sanctions” and that this has an influence on the union between the countries – and that the EU wants to extend to more States – which are pressing Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine.
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