Reuters, 17/09 18:39 CET
By Alessandra Prentice and Pavel Polityuk
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko ordered six European journalists to be
removed from a newly-published sanctions list, officials said on
Thursday, in a swift U-turn after the list was criticised by the
country’s Western allies.
Poroshenko signed a decree on Wednesday naming more than
900 people to a blacklist to face penalties for reasons of “national
security”, after pro-Russian separatists who have seized parts of
Ukraine set a date for what Kiev sees as “illegal elections”.
The government has not specified precisely what penalties
it would impose on those on the list, but these are thought to include
bans on travel and financial restrictions for those with Ukrainian
assets.
While mostly made up of Russians and separatists, the
list included 34 journalists and seven bloggers from
countries including
Britain, Germany and Spain.
The European Union responded sharply.
“I am surprised and I am concerned and I will certainly
discuss it with the colleagues in Ukraine because this is not European
in spirit,” Johannes Hahn, the EU’s commissioner in charge of
enlargement, said in Brussels.
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Source: Euronews
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