Punishment of the European Union to the Russian capital will be cancelled If the full performance of the Minsk agreement on Ukraine, but this is still not close, said the head of the EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini. " I have the ability to say That everything will be depending on the position on the ground. If, and when all Minsk items will be fulfilled, then, of course, there will be more punishment. But we are far from it, " she said, RIA " Novosti ". Mogherini said " positive signals ", indicating a change in the approach of the Russian capital to the situation in Ukraine. However, she clarified That these changes as long as they remain rather limited. First German Chancellor Angela Merkel also said That the implementation of the Minsk agreements is an important prerequisite for the lifting of sanctions in regard to Russia." the use of punishment has certain reasons. Punishment can only be removed when the disappear of their reason, and the reason is the annexation of the Crimea ", - said Merkel reporters in Berlin on Thursday. As for the other sentences, they were taken " in connection with the fighting in the East of Ukraine, " she said. In addition, on Thursday, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov Century during a telephone conversation with German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier stressed the need to consolidate the emerging positive trends in the peaceful settlement of the fall in the Ukraine.
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