European Union foreign ministers said on Monday there were no grounds to lift economic sanctions against Russia despite conciliatory proposals from the EU's foreign policy chief, as violence intensified in Ukraine.
Federica Mogherini had suggested in a confidential memo seen by Reuters that EU governments could start talking to Russia again about global diplomacy, trade and other issues if Moscow implemented the Minsk peace agreement to end the separatist conflict.
Mogherini's proposals were met with suspicion by some EU countries that feared they would send the message to Russian President Vladimir Putin the EU's resolve was weakening.
"There is no normalisation, there is no 'back to business in usual' in any way. There is a reflection on how to use in the best possible way our tools, our role," she told a news conference.............Reuters..........http://www.todayonline.com/world/russia-sanction-easing-needs-ukraine-improvement-eus-mogherini
19/1/15
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Federica Mogherini had suggested in a confidential memo seen by Reuters that EU governments could start talking to Russia again about global diplomacy, trade and other issues if Moscow implemented the Minsk peace agreement to end the separatist conflict.
- "In light of the current events in eastern Ukraine, no one had the idea of loosening the sanctions," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters after talks among EU ministers.
Mogherini's proposals were met with suspicion by some EU countries that feared they would send the message to Russian President Vladimir Putin the EU's resolve was weakening.
- "I don't think that we now should think how to re-engage. Russia should think how to re-engage," Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told reporters.
"There is no normalisation, there is no 'back to business in usual' in any way. There is a reflection on how to use in the best possible way our tools, our role," she told a news conference.............Reuters..........http://www.todayonline.com/world/russia-sanction-easing-needs-ukraine-improvement-eus-mogherini
19/1/15
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