Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert fico called for the immediate lifting anti-Russian sanctions of the European Union in the case of the implementation by Russia of the Minsk agreements. "punishment will solve nothing. They are not policy, but only a tool that is not achieving its goals, " He said, reports the news Agency." The purpose of the punishment was not causing economic damage to Russia and a decrease in the living standard of its people, the Premier said.- They were designed to push the Russian Federation to resolve the conflict with Ukraine." Major political achievement, in his vision, was the conclusion of the Minsk agreements. "We must applaud and thank President Hollande, Federal Chancellor Merkel, Poroshenko and Putin for the support of the Belarusian President, for the fact that They have reached agreement and brought them down on paper," said Robert fico. He didn't want to predict what time can take the settlement process in Ukraine." I would be patient in the implementation of the agreements. However, if We see that one of the parties does them punishment should be eased, " he said. Robert fico said the proximity of the position of Slovakia and the Czech Republic on the issue of EU sanctions against Russia. He also recalled his participation and the participation of Czech President Milos Zeman in the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Russian capital." We must not forget that the greatest burden in the Second world war befell the red army. The defeat of fascism was the main prerequisite for the emergence of pan-European structures, the European Union, " drew the attention of Robert fico. However, as was said yesterday, a source, a legislative act embodying the renewal of economic sanctions by the EU against Russia will not be prepared and adopted before the summit of the EU leaders, scheduled for June 25-26. On 5 may the European Parliament Committee on international relations blessed the draft decision calling for sanctions against Russia in case of failure of the Minsk agreements, and agreed to bring the document to valaisiana Assembly in June. On the same day the Minister for foreign Affairs of Austria Sebastian Kurz said that the European Union States links the future of sanctions against Russia with the progress of the Minsk agreements on Ukraine. In response to this, the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov, the penalties are not Russia's decision, for this reason, any criteria for lifting them with the EU will not be discussed. For its part, the permanent Commissioner of Russia to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said that Moscow is not engaged in dialogues with the European Union on the abolition of punishment, it is the decision of the countries of Europe make their own. 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.