Beijing - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that Russia's future decisions on Ukraine will influence the tightening or cancellation of restrictive measures against Russia, the EFE news agency reported on Saturday, Nov. 8.
“The choices Russia makes will decide what happens with respect to sanctions in the long run here,” he said at a press conference in Beijing on Saturday, Nov. 8 after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov as part of the APEC summit.
“Suffice it to say that we do have some disagreements [with Russia] about some of the facts on the ground with respect to Ukraine,” he said.
Kerry said that he had agreed with Lavrov “to exchange some information between us regarding [the conflict in eastern Ukraine]” and that “this is a dialogue that will continue.”
“And our hope is still that the process of the Minsk agreements can go forward, that they will be implemented, and that it will be possible over time, with their implementation, to see the border sealed, to see the troops withdrawn, and to see stability restored in a way that allows everybody to move down a path of de-escalation. But it really is up to the events over the course of the next weeks to determine whether or not that happens,” Kerry said.
