Washington - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she is confident that restrictive measures against Russia will have time to have an effect, the Australian has reported.
“It would take time for sanctions on Russia to have an effect, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned,” the newspaper wrote on Monday, Nov. 17.
In an address to the Lowy Institute in Sydney she vowed that economic sanctions would be applied “to the extent necessary and for long as they are needed.”
“Who would have thought 25 years after the fall of the wall, after the end of the cold war, and the of the division of Europe, and the end of world being divided, that something like that could happen right at the centre of Europe?” Merkel said, commenting on the situation in Ukraine.
“Old thinking, thinking in terms of theories of influence, where international law is violated, this must not be allowed to prevail. I’m convinced it will not prevail,” she said.
