16/10/2020 (Agence Europe) – The Russian Mission to the EU denounced on Friday 16 October the sanctions imposed on seven Russians and one Russian entity in connection with the Navalny case (see EUROPE 12582/9) and Libya (see EUROPE 12582/32). “The EU’s reasoning behind these decisions (...) is bordering on the absurd. Of course, there is no mention of any real evidence”, it said. According to the Mission, the EU’s attempts “to use the authority of the United Nations to cover up its unseemly political goals” are “absolutely unacceptable”. Recalling that Russia had stressed that “the EU's stubborn intention” to hold it responsible for Mr Navalny’s alleged poisoning would be “the litmus test” for further relations with the EU, the mission warned that European measures “will not remain unanswered”. (CG)