EU representatives approve sanctions against Russian companies, individuals

BRUSSELS, November 11. /TASS/. The EU ambassadors approve a new expansion of the anti-Russian sanction list and included 43 people and about a hundred legal entities in it, a source in Brussels told TASS. The decision was made at the meeting of the EU committee of permanent representatives, he said. These were planned sanctions unrelated to talks underway in Abu Dhabi, where the Europeans did not participate in the discussion, the source noted. The restrictions approved are not related to the 22nd anti-Russian sanctions package that is still being prepared, he added. The endorsement of this document at the permanent representatives’ level means with high probability that it will be approved by the EU foreign ministers on November 16 in Brussels and will come into force on the same day.