Ukraine trade pact talks with Russia end without result
Some of them we think are not real in economic terms.
Malmström also noted that these were 22nd consultations in the past 18 months. Currently, trade between Russian Federation and Ukraine is conducted in accordance with the free trade agreement between CIS countries.
Ulykayev said there was no reason for Ukraine to be “emotional” about Russia’s moves. In a TV documentary entitled World Order, aired by Russia’s Rossiya-1 television channel just recently, Putin said that western sanctions would by no means make Russian Federation “pout”.
The list also includes six “separatists designated for threatening the security or stability of Ukraine” and two former Ukrainian government officials “for being complicit in the misappropriation of public assets and/or threatening the security or stability of Ukraine“.
Moscow’s dispute with Ukraine and its allies continues to poison economic and financial relations.
He played down the negative impact of the retaliatory measures on Russia’s own embattled economy, saying that annual food trade with Ukraine was now $200 million, one-tenth of the $2 billion it was three years ago.
“Today’s steps support the US commitment to seek a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Ukraine by maintaining our sanctions on Russian Federation”, the Treasury said in a statement.
The EU first imposed economic sanctions against Russia for a year after the July 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet, blamed on pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
It reiterated that Russian Federation is not part of this crisis originated after the coup in February 2014 in Kyiv by the then opposition, now in power with the backing of the United States and Europe.
Moscow has repeatedly dismissed the sanctions which target its bank, oil and defense sectors as both ineffective and counterproductive to the better mutual understanding the European Union says it wants.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that he welcomed the extension.
The sanctions were provisionally extended by European Union envoys last Friday and were confirmed with the lapse of a noon deadline on Monday after no member state raised any objections.
“Without granting the status of an autonomy to Donbas Moscow will be unprepared to let Kyiv regain full control of the Russian-Ukrainian border”.
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