{"id":303067,"date":"2017-04-10T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-pressing-g7-nations-to-impose-tough-new-sanctions-on-russia\/"},"modified":"2017-04-10T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:26:24","slug":"uk-pressing-g7-nations-to-impose-tough-new-sanctions-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-pressing-g7-nations-to-impose-tough-new-sanctions-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"UK pressing G7 nations to impose tough new sanctions on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The UK is in talks with international partners to collectively impose new sanctions on Russia if it does not withdraw support for Syrian President Bahsar al-Assad, a government spokesman said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in discussions with our key partners on how we can bring further pressure to bear on the regime and those who are backing it, which includes the Russians,&#8221; the spokesman told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that Prime Minister Theresa May spoke with her Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, on Sunday and the two leaders agreed to push for a political solution to the Syrian conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come as foreign ministers from the Group of Seven major industrialized countries gathered in Lucca, Italy, on Monday for a summit which is expected to be overshadowed by last week\u2019s suspected chemical attack in Syria, Russia\u2019s support for Assad, and the US missile attacks on a Syrian airbase.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting in Lucca brings together foreign ministers from the US,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/04\/10\/517501\/UK-pressing-for-tough-new-sanctions-on-Russia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK is in talks with international partners to collectively impose new sanctions on Russia if it does not withdraw support for Syrian President Bahsar al-Assad, a government spokesman said. &#8220;We are in discussions with our key partners on how we can bring further pressure to bear on the regime and those who are backing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}