EU and US hold first high-level meeting on countering Russia: The participants agreed to discuss further measures to isolate Russia from the EU

BRUSSELS: The participants agreed to discuss further measures to isolate Russia from the EU and US economies and their financial systems and to continue close coordination on the application of sanctions: The EU and the US held in Washington the first high-level bilateral meeting on countering Russia, reaffirmed their desire to "isolate the Russian Federation" and coordinate the application of already adopted sanctions. This is stated in a statement released on Thursday in Brussels by the EU Foreign Service. It was attended by US First Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Deputy Secretary General of the EU Foreign Service Enrique Mora.

"The European Union and the United States held their first high-level meeting on Russia in Washington on Thursday," the document says. "This meeting was a development of the EU-US summit in June 2021, where both sides declared their readiness to coordinate the policies and actions of the EU and the United States regarding Russia ".

The document emphasizes that the meeting participants "agreed to continue close coordination on the application of sanctions against Russia" and agreed to "discuss further measures to isolate Russia from the EU and US economies and their financial systems."