Merkel announced the conditions for lifting sanctions from Russia
Sanctions against Russia will remain in force until the Minsk agreements are implemented, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced this on Wednesday in the Bundestag, answering questions from parliamentarians, Deutsche Welle reports.
“Everyone would be pleased if sanctions did not need to be imposed, including me,” she said. However, restrictive measures were introduced because the territorial integrity of Ukraine was violated, the chancellor added. “We believe that sanctions are correct and important until the Minsk agreements are implemented,” she said.
“We have already spoken with the new Ukrainian president. However, the situation now is that there is still no truce in Donbass, and there is not enough progress to lift restrictive measures. In this regard, I think it is correct that they were extended,” the chancellor noted.
In 2014, the European Union imposed sanctions on the Russian Federation in connection with the events in Crimea. Restrictive measures have been expanded and extended several times. Negotiations on a visa-free regime and on a new basic cooperation agreement were suspended, a ban on entry into EU countries was introduced for officials from the Russian Federation and their assets were frozen, and restrictive measures of a trade, financial and military nature were introduced.
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