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EU FOREIGN ministers decided yesterday to extend sanctions on Venezuela for another year.
They also extended an asset freeze and travel bans against 25 Venezuelan officials.
The EU and most of its member states recognised the self-proclaimed presidency of opposition figure Juan Guaido at the start of the year — in defiance of diplomatic norms — and has blamed clashes between right-wing militants and the police on the elected government of Nicolas Maduro.
The US-based Centre for Policy Studies concluded in April that sanctions on Venezuela have cost tens of thousands of lives as the population face food and medicine shortages.
The foreign ministers’ meeting also discussed Iran’s decision to enrich uranium to higher levels than it is permitted under a 2015 nuclear development agreement with the US, EU, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China, a retaliatory move after the US walked away from the deal and imposed renewed sanctions.
Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said Iran’s behaviour “was to be expected” in light of the US action.
