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Chinese tourists enjoy a sunny day at the observation point at Vorobyovy Hills in Moscow on July 15, 2024. Agence France-Presse
NEW YORK — Finance ministers of the G7 nations vowed Saturday to step up efforts to prevent Russia from evading sanctions imposed after its invasion of Ukraine.
“We remain committed to taking further initiatives in response to oil price cap violations,” the group said in a statement following a meeting in Washington. Those further steps were not spelled out in detail.
Article continues after this advertisementIn December 2022, the G7 together with the European Union and Australia agreed to pressure purchasers of Russian oil to not go above a certain price ceiling.
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The agreement was intended to limit Russian petroleum sales and revenues without curbing exports so sharply that it would cause global oil prices to soar.
Article continues after this advertisementBut some countries, notably China, have continued to import Russian crude oil without observing the price ceiling.
Article continues after this advertisementThe G7 finance ministers also said they would take additional measures aimed at “increasing the costs to Russia of using the shadow fleet to evade sanctions.”
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Officials say Russia has used its fleet of shadow tankers, many of them old, unmarked and poorly maintained, to skirt sanctions by transporting oil without properly declaring their cargo or itineraries.
Article continues after this advertisementThe tankers sometimes load or transfer their cargo at sea to avoid unwanted attention.
The United States and the EU have sanctioned several of these ships and their owners, notably Russia’s government-owned maritime company Sovcomflot.
The G7 ministers said they intended “to intensify our efforts to prevent financial institutions from supporting Russia’s evasion of our sanctions.”
According to the US Office of Foreign Assets Control, Russian financial institutions have developed a network of foreign subsidiaries to facilitate the purchase or sale of sanctioned goods.
Joining the G7 ministers in the meeting Saturday were the heads of the seven countries’ central banks, plus top officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The G7, which groups seven of the world’s most advanced economies, announced Friday it had reached an agreement to provide a loan of around $50 billion to Ukraine.
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The loan will be repaid not by Ukraine but with the interest — roughly $3 billion a year — generated by Russian assets seized and frozen after the war began in February 2022.bonus365
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