Sun 12 December 2021:
Russia faces “massive consequences” if it invades Ukraine, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Sunday at a meeting of the G7’s top diplomats.
Foreign ministers from the world’s richest nations have held a two-day meeting in Liverpool, northwest England, seeking to present a strong, united front against global threats.
Truss said there was a “very much a united voice from the G7 nations who represent 50 percent of global GDP, being very clear that there will be massive consequences for Russia in the case of an incursion into Ukraine”.
The United States on Saturday urged Russia to pull back from the brink over Ukraine, a senior State Department official told reporters at a meeting of the grouping’s top diplomats in Liverpool, northwest England, that Moscow still had time to change course.
“But if they choose not to pursue that path, there will be massive consequences and severe costs in response, and the G7 is absolutely united in that,” the official said.
“A large number of democratic countries will join us in imposing costs,” they added.
Western concerns are growing over a Russian troop build-up on the border that the Kremlin says is defensive against any move by the former Soviet state eastwards towards NATO.
G7 ministers want to show the grouping can move beyond condemnation to robustly defend its values as a deterrent to future threats.
The meeting comes after US President Joe Biden this week held a virtual summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to try to end the stand-off diplomatically.
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