British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the tragedy "happened in the first place because of Russian support for the rebels" and that foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday had to address that issue. An EU leaders' summit on Wednesday recommended that the 28-member bloc extend its sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian figures for their role in the crisis but the downing of flight MH17 had changed the situation completely, Hammond said.
"The world has changed since then ... and (now) we have to go further," he said as he arrived for the meeting. An arms embargo "is one of the things that we will have to look at," he said, adding that the EU had to send "a very clear message" to Moscow.
Several other EU foreign ministers made the same point, with Lithuania's Linas Linkevicius arguing that the rebels in eastern Ukraine should be treated as terrorists. "We are talking about a terrorist act," Linkevicius said.
- British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday had called on the EU to adopt tougher "Phase 3" sanctions and to halt all arms sales to Russia, citing specifically a French contract for two warships worth 1.2 billion euros. "We cannot go on doing business as usual with a country when it's behaving in this way," Cameron said in a statement to parliament.
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