Belgium and Russia have expressed interest in overcoming issues in relations between Russia and the European Union, said the Head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. V. Lavrov at a press conference With Belgian counterpart Didier Reynders in Moscow.
"We have examined the relationship between Russia and the European Union. With both sides interested in the fact that We overcame those problems on the way of development of these relations has arisen. Clearly, because this can only be done on the basis of equality and mutual respect and surveys the interests of one another, "said Lavrov, quoted by RIA" Novosti ".



Lavrov has supplemented his words by the fact that in the Ukrainian settlement, there is no alternative to the Minsk agreements." to the question about what can Russia do for the execution of the Minsk agreements, I will answer simply - We have campaigned and will continue to do so all the more insistent, and the official authorities in Kiev, and France, and Germany, as guarantors of the Minsk agreements With us, To the influence on the Ukrainian government, which ought to get to perform, under which they have signed their leader, " he said."interaction With Belgium now constrained and rolled back because of issues in relations between Russia and the West on the background of the Ukrainian fall," he said.- To develop trade and economic cooperation show the direct interest of the business community. As long as we suffer our trade relations, declined for the second consecutive year turnover." According to the Minister, the main share of the fall accounted for by imports from Belgium to the Russian Federation." There is the intergovernmental Commission, advocated that within this mechanism to resolve appropriate issues, " said Lavrov, quoted by the news Agency. The head the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation nourishes the hope that the Belgian business circles will participate in the June economic forum in St. Petersburg. Remember, the opposing parties in the Donbass fifteen February, declared a truce, under agreements concluded in Minsk. The document provides for the withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries From the territory of Ukraine under the supervision of the OSCE

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