Milan, 30 August (LaPresse) – "I believe that financial sanctions should be imposed to force Putin to stop paying his military personnel extremely high salaries, three times those of a worker. I do not believe there is a legal basis for imposing other types of sanctions, i.e. against private Russian citizens, with confiscated assets. I do not think there is a legal basis for this. We must always be on the side of reason, never on the side of wrongdoing." This was stated by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani upon his arrival at the informal Gymnich Foreign Affairs Council in Copenhagen.