Schroeder: cooperation with Russia will help Europe to maintain peace
Peace in the European Union can be save only by cooperating with Russia, said the former Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroeder. "Peace and stability will only provide in partnership in the security sphere with Russia ", - quotes Schroeder news Agency.
at the same time, Schroeder tried to persuade the West and Moscow to "verbal disarmament" in order to avoid further deterioration of relations. Before the last working day of the week the head of European diplomacy Federica Mogherini urged the EU and Ukraine to maintain a dialogue with Russia. On Tuesday, the European Parliament's 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. Before in 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.