After the EU and the U.S. now also imposed sanctions against Russia Japan: Tokyo stops talks on visa facilitation and negotiations on an investment agreement. Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin are unimpressed – he agreed to a Treaty of Accession to the Crimea.

Japan’s government responded with sanctions on the Crimean policy of Russia. Tokyo would suspend negotiations on visa facilitation and absorb any talks on a new agreement on investment as well as a space agreements, the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo said on Tuesday. It was regrettable that Moscow had recognized the independence of the Crimea. This step is affecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

In the referendum on Sunday , 97 percent of participants were in favor of annexation of the peninsula to Russia. Already had decided punitive measures against some high-ranking representatives of Russia and Ukraine, the EU and the U.S. before Japan. Of the EU measures – account lockout and travel bans – are affected 21 Russians and Ukrainians. Washington blocked the U.S. assets of seven high-ranking Russian government officials and parliamentarians , including Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin .

Notwithstanding the sanctions drove Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin ‘s accession to the Crimea to Expand: Putin agreed to a contract relating to the taking of the peninsula . A corresponding arrangement of the planned signing of the document at the highest level published state law portal pravo.gov.ru . The President wants to leave on Tuesday before both chambers of the Russian parliament a statement . The keynote address is scheduled for 12 clock CET (15 clock time) .

The European Commission , meanwhile, has signaled its readiness to accept Ukraine as a full member of the EU. Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule said the ” world “: “If we want to change the relevant part of Eastern Europe seriously , we should also apply the strongest instrument available to the EU’s disposal and that is the extension”. You have an “unprecedented changing and stabilizing force .”

Ukraine Crisis:Laschet criticized “anti-Putin populism”

In the debate on the Crimean crisis and Russia’s actions also CDU deputy chief Armin Laschet has turned on. He warned against one-sided criticism of Putin. There is currently a ” marketable anti-Putin populism” in Germany , Laschet said the ” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. Even before the Crimean conflict, the debate was criminally limited to phenomena such as the case of the detained Musikerinnnen the punk band Pussy Riot . Even if the referendum in the Crimea and the Russian policy were clearly illegal under international law against the Crimea, one must put oneself in the other person , if you type ” a foreign policy relationship cultivates ” .

Laschet pointed to the close economic ties between Germany and Russia. In North Rhine- Westphalia alone 1200 companies engaged in trade with Russia or invested in Russia. ” And 40 percent of the gas that we need for our modern gas power plants , so that the energy turnaround to succeed comes from Russia. ”

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