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Published 03 Sep, 2022 04:12am

G7 to implement Russian oil price cap ‘urgently’

BERLIN: G7 industrialised powers vowed on Friday to move urgently towards implementing a price cap on Russian oil imports in a bid to cut off a major source of funding for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

The G7 said it was working towards a “broad coalition” of support for the measure but officials in France urged caution, saying a final decision could only be taken once all 27 members of the European Union had given their assent.

Households on the continent have borne the brunt of rising energy prices, with governments under pressure to alleviate the pain of the resulting high inflation.

“Russia is benefitting economically from the uncertainty on energy markets caused by the war and is making big profits from the export of oil and we want to counter that decisively,” German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said in a press conference. The price cap may “stop an important source of financing for the war and contain the rise in global energy prices, he added.

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2022

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