Naryshkin: Russia will first discuss the criteria for the lifting of sanctions
Moscow does not want to be the first to start a discussion on the signs of withdrawal penalties, this step is bound to make the European Union, said at a meeting with French senators, the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin.
"I wish to say frankly that we, of course, not going to discuss, as suggested by individual leaders of the European Union, any criteria for the lifting of sanctions. The 1st step is bound to make the EU, which is under pressure from the U.S. is taking such unfriendly in relation to Russia, " Naryshkin said, reports news Agency.
He clarified that the penalties forced the Russian Federation " to make painful for the agricultural sector of the EU response, and forced us to establish trade cooperation with other countries very seriously to deal with the issues of import substitution ". But punishment does not help to settle the internal Ukrainian crisis ", concluded the speaker. Interlocutors Naryshkin became deputies Josette Durrie, emery de Montesquieu, ga?tan Gorce, Robert del Picchia. First foreign Minister of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna expressed the view that the Union of European States will extend the punishment against Russia before the end of 2015 or 2016. Remember, on 5 may the European Parliament Committee on international relations blessed the draft decision calling for sanctions against Russia in case of failure of the Minsk agreements, and agreed to bring the document to valaisiana Assembly in June. On the same day the Minister for foreign Affairs of Austria Sebastian Kurz said that the European Union States links the future of sanctions against Russia with the progress of the Minsk agreements on Ukraine. In response to this, the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov, the penalties are not Russia's decision, for this reason, any criteria for lifting them with the EU will not be discussed. For its part, the permanent Commissioner of Russia to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said that Moscow is not engaged in dialogues with the European Union on the abolition of punishment, it is the decision of the countries of Europe make their own. On 29 April, the EU Ambassador to the US David O " Sullivan said punishment against Russia will remain in force at least until the end of the year, when the European Union will be able to assess the degree of implementation of the Minsk agreements. For its part, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the question Of the withdrawal or extension of sanctions against Russia will be discussed by the EU in July.
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