R?ivas: the EU will extend the punishment against Russia failure " Minsk-2 "
Nikolai Dashkevich. Prime Minister of Estonia Taavi R?ivas believes that punishment against Russia will be extended If By June Minsk consensus will not be fully done.
"I do not share the pessimism regarding the unity of the European Union. Punishment, no doubt, will be extended. Unfortunately, I see no possibility that the Minsk-2 To June will be fully implemented. If not, punishment will be extended. If necessary, punishment will have to tighten, " said R?ivas on the first day of the weekend, delivering a speech in Tallinn at the international conference name of the former President of Estonia Lennart Meri.
Taking place from 24 to 26 April, an International conference is called " the Border world order ". Participants of the meeting discussed the international situation in the year of the 40th anniversary of the Helsinki agreements.
The summit of the heads of the EU countries at the end of March made a political decision to link the effect of economic penalties against Russia's full implementation of the Minsk agreements and clarified, because it is only planned By 31 December 2015.
in the end, this decision may need to extend economic sanctions, expiring at the end of July this year. Now the EU must enact legislation enshrining the political decision of the summit. At the moment the proposal on the extension of economic sanctions against Russia from the head of EU diplomacy has not been received.
Moscow has stated many times that is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in its early peaceful settlement. Imposed by the West punishments of the Russian Federation considers illegal and unjustified.
Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits Imposed in March 2015, when expanded sanctions List Australia. The list of Russian citizens and organizations who have fallen under the punishment - in the material of the Fins news