ISE-SIM / Japan / 26 May. / Corr. TASS Kirill Agafonov Alexey Zavrachaev /. The EU considers it necessary to preserve the anti-Russian sanctions to the full realization of the Minsk agreements. This was announced on Thursday at a press conference before the opening of the summit of the “Big Seven” in Japan, European Council President Donald Tusk.
“The EU will stick to the current policy towards Russia, including economic sanctions, while not up to the end Minsk made an agreement “, – he said
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet said that coordination with the implementation of sanctions.” Minsk-2 “encourages impunity Kiev to sabotage the agreement. “The European Union has led to their removal performance of Russian Such a linkage is absurd Minsk agreements, because our country is known to be party to the conflict in Ukraine is not a similar formulation of the problem only encourage Kiev impunity to sabotage the implementation of the Minsk package of measures..” – He said
The summit G7 (France, Germany, Italy, Canada, USA, France and Japan), opened on Thursday in the Japanese national park, Ise-Shima (Mie prefecture) on the Pacific coast. It will last two days.
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The EU will extend the sanctions
It is also the chairman of the European Council expects that EU leaders will decide on the extension of the anti-Russian sanctions.
“I am confident that we will make a decision on sanctions in the next two or three weeks without great debate”, -. Quoted him as saying the agency Bloomberg
The validity of European sanctions expires on 31 July . The question of their extension has not been discussed.
In 2014, the EU imposed sanctions against Russia in connection with the events in Ukraine and the reunification of the Crimea with Russia and has repeatedly extended, and extended them. Were suspended talks on visa-free regime and a new basic agreement on cooperation, introduced a ban on entry to the EU for officials from Russia and freeze their assets, introduced restrictive measures of commercial, financial and military. Total blacklisted got 151 people and 37 entities. Sectoral sanctions apply to the 20 Russian financial, oil production and defense structures.
The migration problem
Also, Tusk said that the EU intends to apply to the countries “Big Seven” for help in resolving the immigration crisis .
“in view of a large part of the responsibility of geography lies on Europe, however, the migration crisis is global and requires a global responsibility We will ask partners in the G7 support..” – he said,
. EU nearly a year on the agenda of all meetings at all levels of the migration crisis, trying to find a way out of it. According to the latest data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 189 thousand migrants and refugees arrived in the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of this year. “According to IOM estimates, from 1 January to 15 May in the sea arrived 189 414 people in Europe, and 1357 people were killed or disappeared,” – the official representative of the organization said Itay Viriri. In Greece, profit 155,837 people in Italy – 32486, Spain – 1063, Cyprus – 28
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