{"id":120513,"date":"2024-12-28T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=120513"},"modified":"2024-12-28T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:34:09","slug":"german-foreign-minister-calls-for-new-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/120513\/","title":{"rendered":"German foreign minister calls for new sanctions against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has urged that new sanctions be imposed against Russia in light of the damage to the Estlink 2 cable between Finland and Estonia—Finnish authorities have accused Russia of involvement in the incident, RIA Novosti<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The Estlink 2 power transmission link, which connects Finland and Estonia, became disconnected on Dec. 25. Finnish police suspect that the cable may have been damaged by the anchor of the Eagle S, a tanker registered with the Cook Islands. They claim that the tanker is involved in the transport of Russian energy resources.<\/p>\n

“The EU must impose new sanctions against Russia,” Baerbock stated.<\/p>\n

She also called for enhanced protection of critical infrastructure and increased investments in national defense.<\/p>\n

“We are discussing with our NATO partners how to best protect the Baltic Sea from hybrid threats,” Baerbock noted.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has urged that new sanctions be imposed against Russia in light of the damage to the Estlink 2 cable between Finland and Estonia—Finnish authorities have accused Russia of involvement in the incident, RIA Novosti writes. The Estlink 2 power transmission link, which connects Finland and Estonia, became disconnected on Dec. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":120483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}