Moscow KremlinBANGKOK, Mar 22 Malaysia and Vietnam agreed not to support sanctions against Russia, said Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob told reporters on Tuesday. The prime minister's press briefing was held following his working visit to Vietnam.Finland allowed the imposition of EU sanctions against the oil industry of RussiaThe head of the Malaysian government said that he «discussed the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Vinh Chin and that the parties agreed that they would remain neutral on this issue.» The words of the prime minister are quoted by the Malaysian news agency Bernama. «As for sanctions against Russia, we do not support these sanctions, as well as any unilateral sanctions in general. We only recognize sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council,» said Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob also stated that Malaysia «will not compromise on the issue of foreign aggression against any sovereign state.»WSJ: anti-Russian sanctions unleashed the whole world on the US «We will not support such aggression, but our position is that we will not interfere. We want the crisis in Ukraine to be resolved through diplomacy,» he said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the RF Armed Forces, the forces of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. In response, Western countries began to introduce new anti-Russian sanctions. As the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said, the Western sanctions are very serious, but Russia was preparing for them in advance. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that Western companies that refuse to work with Russia did so under enormous pressure, but Moscow will solve all the problems the West has created for it with the economy.
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