Węgry.Orban excludes the automatic extension of sanctions against Russia – Gazeta Wyborcza

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Monday that it will not be an automatic extension of EU sanctions against Russia and called for "calm debate" on the implementation of the Minsk agreement on the settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          
 

                 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

         

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Orban spoke at a meeting with the ambassadors of Hungary.

"At the end of the first half of this year can expect a serious debate in the EU on the implementation of the Minsk agreement. In other words, there will be an automatic extension of sanctions against Russia, to take our decision - whatever it was - should be preceded by a calm and objective analysis on the Minsk agreement, "- he said.

In summer 2014 years the EU introduced economic sanctions against Russia for supporting separatists on the eastern Ukraine. These include restrictions on access to capital for Russian state-owned banks and oil companies, restrictions on the sale of advanced technologies for the oil industry, dual use equipment and an arms embargo. These restrictions were introduced a year. In July 2015 they were extended by six months, and in December for another six months. EU makes the abolition of restrictions on the fulfillment of the agreements from Minsk to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Reuters notes that the government Orban said the Russian Rosatomowi contract for the construction of new reactors in the Hungarian nuclear power plant and promotes - as it determines in Budapest - "pragmatic" good relations with Russia. Orban was in mid-February visit to Moscow. Even then - he grasped what the Russian press - expressed the belief that the EU sanctions against Russia will not be possible this summer to extend automatically.

"So far, sanctions (towards Russia) extended automatically. I think that this period has passed. More and more people in Europe understand that what I am saying. I think that this year, in the middle year, there will be no automatic extension of sanctions "- said Orban in Moscow after a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.

Minsk agreement was concluded in February 2015 the Belarusian capital in the presence of, among others, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande. Provides, inter alia ceasefire, the withdrawal of heavy military equipment, the recovery of Ukraine's control over the border with Russia in the Donbass, humanitarian aid for the population, and to conduct in accordance with Ukrainian law, local elections in areas that are now under the control of separatists.

         

         

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