The Kremlin has announced today that more details are needed regarding information on a European Union plan ( ) to impose duties on Russian. Peskov noted that Moscow is aware of a financial Times report on an EU plan to impose duties on Russian cereals, but the timetable and other details need to be clarified before its response is decided. The Financial Times reports in its current report, in which it invokes sources of information on plans in Brussels, that the European Union is preparing to proceed with the imposition of duties on imported cereals from Russia and Belarus to appease farmers and certain Member States. Asked at the same time about Reuters’s report that President Vladimir Putin will visit China in May, Peskov said that various Putin trips abroad are planned and that preparatory high-level contacts are underway regarding them. Reuters broadcast earlier today citing five sources of information on the issue, which asked not to be named, that Putin would travel in May to China for talks with Chinese counterpart Shi Jinping, on his first possible foreign trip after winning the presidential election in Russia. The Kremlin representative also said that the Russian president was to participate today in a session of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
Kremlin: We need details before we respond to the EU plan for Russian cereals
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