UNIAN: EU extends Russia sanctions over Skripal poisoning

By UNIAN.

Published Oct. 14, 2019 at 9:31 pm

A handout picture taken on Fisherton Road in Salisbury, west of London on March 4, 2018, and released by the British Metropolitan Police Service in London on Sept. 5, 2018, shows Alexander Petrov (R) and Ruslan Boshirov, who are wanted by British police in connection with the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

Photo by AFP

The EU Council today extended restrictive measures by the EU addressing the use and proliferation of chemical weapons until October 16, 2020.

These sanctions, which consist of a travel ban to the EU and an asset freeze for persons, as well as an asset freeze for entities, currently apply to nine persons – five linked to the Syrian regime and four involved in the Salisbury attack – and one organization, the Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC), the Syrian regime’s principal entity for the development of chemical weapons, according to the EU Council press service.