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Article: VOA NEWS: EUROPEAN UNION MULLS SANCTION OPTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA

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August 28, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Tom Rivers

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says the European Union is considering sanctions against Russia following its recognition of independence for the Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. France has called an EU meeting Monday in Brussels to focus on what steps the 27-member bloc will take in terms of future relations with Russia. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports from London.

Bernard Kouchner says sanctions are a possibility among other unspecified means, but he adds the current impasse must be solved through negotiations.

Moscow's recognition of the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia ...

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