MOSCOW – The European Union continues linking the prospect of the anti-Russian sanctions being lifted or softened, with implementation of all points of the Minsk agreements, contrary to Moscow's expectations of the opposite.
Full implementation of the Minsk agreements is a key precondition for lifting the sanctions, as was decided by the European Council, the EU calls on all parties to honor their obligations in this respect, the EU representative office told Interfax, commenting on claims by Russian Economic Development Minister, Alexei Ulyukayev, that the conditions are now turning in favor of the anti-Russian sanctions being canceled or reduced in the very near future.
Meanwhile, as Ulyukayev said at meetings with Finnish business circles in Helsinki on Wednesday, lately the situation has been evolving in such a way as to give rise to objective pre-conditions for the anti-Russian sanctions to be canceled or softened in the very near future.
