Officials from Japan and the European Union were against a US plan to prohibit all G7 member-states from exporting to Russia, Financial Times reports.
EU and Japanese delegates have raised doubts about the feasibility of such a plan, and suspect that it was put out as a result of rising displeasure with Washington's existing attitude on Russian purchases of Western technology.
Bloomberg earlier indicated that the United States and its partner nations were mulling near-total export limitations to Russia prior to the G7 conference in Japan in May. Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation's Security Council, has stated that such a restriction might result in the termination of the G7 grain deal.
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