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06-01-2015, 09:25 PM
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that during the numerous meetings with foreign politicians, Vladimir Putin is not raised and is not going to raise the issue of lifting sanctions against Russia. According to Peskov, as Russia never initiated the entry of sanctions, «we will never initiate cancel.
«The theme of European sanctions against Russia are not raised by the President during his numerous foreign contacts,» he said. This Peskov added that «it is not a question of our agenda». However Peskov said that Russia was never a supporter of the policy of sanctions. «Moscow is deeply convinced that this practice is absurd, ineffective and is a double-edged sword» — quoted by TASS (http://itar-tass.com/) press Secretary of the President.
In mid-April of 2015, the foreign Ministers of the G7 countries (USA, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, UK, Japan) in a joint communiqué stated (http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/552e7a149a79478a546910ae)that Western sanctions against Russia could be lifted only if Moscow would honour the agreement on a ceasefire, signed in February in Minsk, and will respect the sovereignty of Ukraine. «Sanctions are not an end in itself: their duration must be clearly linked to the full implementation by Russia of the Minsk agreements and respect the sovereignty of Ukraine», — said the foreign Ministers.
In September 2014, after the EU and the USA the most ambitious of the third package of sanctions, the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said (http://top.rbc.ru/politics/26/09/2014/951595.shtml)that Russia will not make concessions for the sake of lifting sanctions. «Attempts to offer Russia to make some steps in exchange for the easing of sanctions is not serious. Ready for equal dialogue,» Lavrov said in response to the promise of President Barack Obama to lift sanctions if Russia «will take the path of peace and diplomacy.»
Packages of sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities has taken the EU and the USA. Some of them joined other Western countries, such as Canada, Switzerland, Norway and others. In August 2014, Russia imposed anti-sanctions, banning the import of products from countries that imposed restrictions against Russia.
The last round of the «war of sanctions» are the events related to messages (http://rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/556c68819a79475516b17b08) about the existence of a blacklist of 89 political leaders of the European Union, who are denied entry to Russia. Among the defendants in the list was the former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK Nick Clegg, former Prime Minister of Belgium, MEP guy Verhofstadt, former European Commissioner for enlargement Stefan Fule and others. The European Commission has described the appearance of the list of «arbitrary and unreasonable» measure, since Russia did not provide explanations for why certain European politicians were included in the list. Thus infringed the principle of transparency, which insisted the European Union.

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