Sanctions should not impede coronavirus fight, EU diplomat says

<div><p>Josep Borrell backs UN call for global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on pandemic </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live/latest">Coronavirus – latest updates</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/coronavirus-outbreak">See all our coronavirus coverage</a></li></ul><p>Sanctions should not stop the delivery of medical equipment and supplies to countries trying to contain outbreaks of coronavirus, the EU’s top diplomat has said.</p><p>Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, made his comments in <a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020/04/03/declaration-by-the-high-representative-josep-borrell-on-behalf-of-the-eu-on-the-un-secretary-general-s-appeal-for-an-immediate-global-ceasefire/">a declaration on Friday</a> in which he backed the UN’s call for an immediate global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the pandemic.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/coronavirus-world-map-which-countries-have-the-most-cases-and-deaths">Coronavirus world map: which countries have the most cases and deaths?</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/04/sanctions-should-not-impede-coronavirus-fight-josep-borrell-eu">Continue reading...</a></div>