Flag of the United States of America. File photoCARACAS, Jun 3US and EU sanctions against Russia are accelerating the transition to a multipolar world without US and dollar hegemony, says Venezuelan MP Julio Chavez.»Sanctions are far from weakening Russia, China or the bloc developing countries. What they have done is to strengthen them and accelerate the transition to a multipolar world without US hegemony and dollar dictatorship,» the parliamentarian told RIA Novosti. In his opinion, the West's illegal and absurd sanctions aimed at damaging the economies of Russia, China and a number of other countries, only harm the population of Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa. Permanent representatives of the EU countries at a meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday approved the legal texts of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, including the oil embargo. The political decision on the sixth sanctions package was taken by European leaders at an extraordinary summit in Brussels on May 30-31. The sixth package, as expected, includes a gradual withdrawal of seaborne Russian oil supplies to the EU. At the same time, a temporary exception is made for oil supplied through the Druzhba pipeline. This exception was previously insisted on by Hungary, which blocked the sanctions package for several weeks due to fears of the negative impact of sanctions on the national economy. able to overcome Western sanctions
