EU will not adopt sanctions against Russia: France

The European Union will not call for sanctions against Russia when it meets next week for an emergency summit on the Georgian crisis, a source in the French president's office said Friday. "We are still in a phase of dialogue with Moscow, not in a phase of sanctions," said the source in Paris, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, adding that "the time for sanctions has not yet come." French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner had said Thursday that some EU states were considering imposing sanctions on Russia when they meet at the summit on Monday in Brussels organised by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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