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Canada: Russia should be hit by sanctions in future unless policy towards Ukraine changes

Published Dec. 8, 2014 at 6:12 pm

Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak (R) greets Canada's Minister of National Defence Rob Nicholson during a signing ceremony in Kiev on December 8, 2014. Nicholson is in Ukraine for a one-day working visit. Ukraine and pro-Russian insurgents prepared Monday for their first comprehensive truce talks in three months aimed at calming an upsurge of violence that has further eroded trust between Moscow and the West.

Photo by AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY

Canada still backs a strategy of continued economic sanctions against Russia until it changes its policy towards Ukraine, Canada's National Defense Minister Rob Nicholson said.

We must uphold pressure on the Russian Federation until Russia switches to international legal norms and honors the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Nicholson said after talks with Ukrainian counterpart Stepan Poltorak in Kyiv on Dec. 8.