The United States believes that now is not the time to conduct business with Russia as usual, and Japan is aware of this, said the U.S. assistant Secretary of state for the Affairs of East Asia and the Pacific Daniel Russell. according to his statement, when U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry went on 12 may in Sochi, He " sought the fulfilment by Russia of its commitments under the Minsk agreements aimed at resolving internal armed conflict in Ukraine. He drew attention, because it is "radically different from doing things, Like often," reports the news Agency.
"We work with Russia when we can, but again, most (time) meetings (part of Kerry's visit to Sochi) last week was devoted to the issues on which We strongly disagree," said Commissioner of the state Department. At the same time she agreed that North America did not agree with those who are already ready to proclaim the Minsk consensus " failure "." No, not at all " - said Harf, answering a direct question on such information. In her expressions, this is the position expounded in the days following the meetings with the Russian leadership in Sochi and Kerry." As We are aware, the current actions of the Verkhovna Rada will not affect the cooperation between the armed forces within the Joint center for monitoring and coordination of the ceasefire in the South-East of Ukraine), they also will not affect the implementation of the Minsk agreements through the trilateral Contact group and its sub-working groups that, by itself, in this case, is of key importance, " - said the official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the United States.
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