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The sanctions against Russia should work to the full implementation of the agreements Minsk, said Obama and Merkel after a bilateral meeting before the opening of the Summit of the G7 in the Bavarian Alps.
The US president said that the leaders of the “Big Seven” will be discussed at the meeting theme of “confrontation of Russian aggression”, reports Reuters. Merkel called the United States its “key partner».
In addition, the German chancellor and the US president discussed the situation surrounding the free trade agreement between Europe and the United States, as well as efforts to combat climate change.
In turn, the British Prime Minister David Cameron and President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, expressed the hope that the country’s “Big Seven” will act “with one voice” on the issue of sanctions policy against Russia.
Earlier, Sunday, Tusk said that the decision to extend sanctions against Russia should follow in the coming days. He recalled that in March the EU decided to link the sanctions to meet the Minsk agreements. The most serious violation of the agreements in Minsk Tusk called the battle for Marinka, renewed in the Donets Basin in the night of Wednesday.
«If someone wants to start discussing sanctions regime change, then we can speak only about strengthening the sanctions” – he said. All participants of the G7 would like to see Russia as one of the participants of the most developed Western countries, but this is not possible due to the fact that Moscow does not share the common values of “Big Seven”, added the President of the European Council. According to him, Russia will not be able to join the G7 as long as she behaved “aggressively” with regard to Ukraine.
On Sunday, in the Bavarian Elmau Castle started a two-day summit of the “Big Seven”: Germany, France, USA, Great Britain, Italy, Canada and Japan. The EU was represented by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and President of the European Council, Donald Tusk.
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