Greece agreed not to block the extension of sanctions against Russia in June at the conference the EU, said the German official, who requested anonymity. He explained that an agreement about it with Athens was reached in March next, "Finmarket" reports citing Bloomberg. So, according to him, Greece at the EU conference in June will not have the ability to block the proposal on the extension of restrictive measures. First, the Agency has put Greece in a number of potential "refuseniks" from punishment - Cyprus, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Spain. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The EU and the US on the background reached in Minsk agreements Between Kiev and militias Donbass about stopping the fire entered against Russia punishment, against the financial, oil and defense industries. However, in March, Russia's envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said that a critical attitude to the sanctions against Russia from a number of EU members increases. In addition, the media said that Italy, Greece and Cyprus, as well As Spain, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia, whose leaders visited the capital of Russia, May not support the extension of sanctions against Russia. April 9, in the process of his visit to the capital of Russia, Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras said that Relations between Russia and the EU need to restart to prevent international calls for energy cooperation and the displacement of Residents. On 8 April, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras discussed the Ukraine and the issue of introduction of sanctions against Russia from the EU. For example, Putin reminded that Russia is extremely interested in the full implementation of the Minsk agreement on Eastern Ukraine. But Tsipras said that Greece has repeatedly expressed its disagreement with the logic of imposing sanctions against Russia, such action is in fact an economic war.
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