At a meeting in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that economic sanctions against Russia must be extended because of the situation in Ukraine. French President Francois Hollande her position while supported, according to RIA Novosti.
As you know, relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in 2014. The EU first imposed individual sanctions against certain individuals, followed by sectoral measures affecting entire sectors of the Russian economy.
the Sanctions repeatedly extended, now they are valid until the end of January 2017. As a condition for the lifting of sanctions the West puts the observance of the Minsk agreements in Ukraine.
However, some European countries — Greece, Hungary, Cyprus, Spain and Italy — support the early establishment of relations with Moscow.
According to the Minsk agreements, until the end of 2015 Kyiv was to reform the Constitution, key elements of which was to be decentralization and the adoption of the law on the special status individual regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but Ukrainian authorities are still not complied with this part of the agreement.
meanwhile, the Kremlin called nonsense to link sanctions with the implementation of the Minsk agreements, as Russia is a party to the conflict and subject to the agreements on the settlement in Ukraine is not.
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