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US President
Joe Biden
has announced that the
G7
, whose leaders are meeting in
Germany
today , will announce a ban on the import of gold from
Russia
among the measures aimed at sanctioning the
invasion of Ukraine
by that country.
Biden
said on Twitter that "together with the
G7
we will announce that we are banning the import of Russian gold, a major import bringing in tens of billions of dollars to
Russia
."
The US president added on the social network that "the United States has imposed unprecedented costs against (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to deprive him of the income he needs to finance his
war against Ukraine
."
The purpose of the summit is to extend the sanctions already imposed by
the United Kingdom
, the
United States
,
Japan
and
Canada
, British sources indicated, according to which Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
will try to convince the rest of the
G7
- that is, including the partners of the
European Union
(EU),
Germany
,
France
and
Italy
- to join that step.
Johnson
considers that "a direct blow must be dealt to the Russian oligarchs", touch "the heart of the arms industry" of President
Vladimir Putin
and choke his sources of financing.
The delegations of the three EU partners present in
Elmau,
the Bavarian castle where the summit is held, are already addressing this possible extension of the sanctions with regard to gold, although at the moment there are no decisions in this regard, sources indicated. Germans.
Neither does Berlin consider that Germany should assume a leadership role, within the EU bloc, regarding the
war in Ukraine
, as is apparently being proposed by the
White House
.
Scholz
's purpose
is to "seek consensus", rather than assuming leadership, both within the G7 and in the meetings to which the leaders of the five countries invited to the summit will join tomorrow -India, Indonesia, South Africa, Senegal and Argentina-, the latter representing all of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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