26/07/2012 (Agence Europe) - Moscow hostile to stepping up arms embargo. On Wednesday 25 July, Russia condemned sanctions adopted by foreign ministers agaisnt Syria to up the arms embargo, describing them as an air and maritime blockade (see EUROPE 10661). Sanctions of that kind, he said, do not help to normalise the situation in Syria and do not correspond either to the letter or spirit of the Kofi Annan plan. The EU has brought in an obligation to inspect ships and aircraft suspected of...