Russia does not want to cancel the food embargo if the European Union will not abandon punishment, said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.
"As for the abolition total or partial embargo, it is, of course, no movement on sanctions that can't be right. Anyway, We continuously do analysis of the situation, And the list has been corrected. For this reason, nothing is out of, but large-scale solutions, by itself, without the abolition of punishment from our European partners will not be ", - has declared Dvorkovich after negotiations in Athens, reports RIA " Novosti ". Along with this, According to Dvorkovich, there are additional opportunities for the promotion of Greek products which do not fall under the embargo." Our Greek colleagues agreed That not enough work in this area. We came to a consensus That will help them with recommendations, contacts directly with the regions, networks. As for the items that are under embargo, we can only create shared processing facilities And to supply processed products that are not subject to punishment", - has declared Dvorkovich. Before the last working day of the week, state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin said That the plans of the West on the extension of sanctions against Russia look silly And wildly amid a terrible tragedy. According to his statement, It speaks about the problems of political morality.
on Thursday, Prime Minister Medvedev D. A. said That the Russian Federation does not ask And would not ask the Western countries to cancel the punishment is relatively capital of Russia. Before the media reported That the Confederation of States close to the extension of the punishment is relatively capital of Russia And is considering 3 possible options, And the extension of restrictive measures for three to four months. The Cabinet of Ministers of Russia has decided from 1 January to enter the food embargo on Ukraine. It was a response to the annexation of Kiev to the European sanctions against Russia. According to Medvedev, Ukraine's losses from Russian food embargo will be hundreds And hundreds of million dollars. The head of Ministry of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev said That in the case of extension of sanctions by Brussels against Russia for another six months the introduction of new response relative to the EU member States is unlikely to be appropriate. On 22 June, the EU Council formally extended the penalties against Russia for another six months, until 31 January 2016. The President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov called the extension of the EU sanctions against Russia unjustified And illegal. And, according to his statement, Russia will proceed from the principle of reciprocity. The Russian President Vladimir Putin said the signing of the decree on the extension of protective measures from 6 August 2015, and the Cabinet of Ministers of Russia issued a decree on the extension of the countermeasures relative to the countries that supported anti-Russian punishment. The EU is obliged to consider the question of waiver or extension of anti-Russian sanctions in January 2016.

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