00:03Luxembourg has deepened the deadlock over the EU's sanctioned list renewal, tying a French demand to delist Russian businessman Alisha
00:11Ousmanov to the case of Mikhail Friedman, who is suing the Grand Duches over his frozen assets.
00:17Last week, Paris joined Slovakia in demanding the removal of Ousmanov from the sanctions list pending renewal.
00:23Now Luxembourg says that if Ousmanov comes off the list, Friedman should too.
00:28Slovakia has longer pushed to delist both Ousmanov and Friedman, oligarchs whom Brussels placed on the sanctions list for being
00:35close to the Kremlin.
00:36Both men denied the allegations.
00:38Earlier this week, it also emerged that France's request to delist Ousmanov was intended as a trait for the release
00:45of French citizens detained in Azerbaijan.
00:47Under EU rules, the list of the 1,600 sanctioned entities and individuals must be renewed with the unanimous support
00:55of the bloc's member states every six months.
00:57The deadline was set to expire on Tuesday, but was extended by one week to allow time for a diplomatic
01:03solution.
01:04Let's go.
