MOSCOW, March 19 Norway has introduced a new package of sanctions against Russia, which corresponds to the twelfth and thirteenth packages of EU sanctions, but with some changes, the Kingdom's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.
«Norway has joined all packages of EU sanctions against Russia with some national changes,» the department said in a statement.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Bart Eide noted that the goals of the twelfth and thirteenth packages of EU sanctions are to introduce further import and export bans against the Russian Federation, combat sanctions circumvention and close loopholes. As noted, the new sanctions come into force on March 19.
The Russian Federation has repeatedly stated that the country will cope with the sanctions pressure that the West began to exert on Russia several years ago and continues to increase. Moscow noted that the West lacks the courage to admit the failure of sanctions against the Russian Federation. In Western countries themselves, opinions have been repeatedly voiced that anti-Russian sanctions are ineffective. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and sanctions dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people.