The European Union (EU) has set aside on the first day of the week the implementation of the punishment relative to the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics at the request of Ukrainians, informs the Internet-portal referring to the Minister of foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius.
"Implementation delayed for several days because We took into consideration the request of the Ukrainians, because they wanted the other side was less reason for refusal from negotiations or from non-constructive negotiations, If the meeting will be held in Minsk on Wednesday," said the Minister.
According to initial plans, the foreign Ministers of member countries of the EU in Brussels were obliged formally to approve the extension of the so-called "black list" to include the five commissioners of the Russian authorities and 14 authorized separatists.
consensus on a list of persons from which denied entry into the EU and whose accounts are frozen, last week reached the ambassadors of member countries of the EU. Punishment expand in response to the attack in Mariupol, in the end, which killed 30 people.
According to the Linkevicius, This decision does not mean the abolition of the punishment of the EU, and to mitigate the punishment of the EU will only occur If you change the real situation on the Eastern Ukraine.
"This does not change the fact, because We have decided to impose punishment after the events in Mariupol, just for these events. We won't evaluate to any regulations, or delivered to the signatures, they just don't make such impression, what could be in good conditions. Assessment We will give only due to changes in the real situation, If we observe that power in reality assign and honestly trying to do what is provided in the Minsk agreements. If so, then only then, maybe, there will be reason to reconsider the policy, " the Minister said.
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