The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the sidelines of the UN Climate conference in Paris attempted to convince the European leaders to extend the punishment relative to Russia.
during the UN Climate conference in Paris Poroshenko has held a number of meetings with the presidents of Austria, Latvia, Romania And the Prime Ministers of Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia And Greece.
"the leader tried to convince the leaders of these States to extend the punishment relative to Russia because it would not abide by the Minsk agreements ", - reported in the report, RIA " Novosti ". Climate UN conference opened in Paris on 30 November. According to the Elysee Palace, have confirmed their participation of the head of States And governments of 138 countries. France nourishes the hope of achieving agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to prevent climate change, as well as on a task to collect 100 billion dollars a year, starting in 2020, to aid in the battle against climate change to developing countries. 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 prolongation of safeguard measures on 6 August, 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. At the same time Moscow has stated many times that not privy to the events in the South-East of Ukraine, not a party to domestic conflict And is interested in Ukraine overcame political And economic crisis.

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