MOSCOW – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov urged the European Union to lift sanctions against Moscow over the Ukrainian conflict and promised to waive its counter-measures, Interfax news agency reported on Saturday.Moscow in August banned most Western food imports, worth US$9 billion (S$11.7 billion) a year, in response to US and European Union sanctions over Russia’s role in Ukraine. “We don’t expect anything from our European partners. The only thing we expect is for them to leave the meaningless sanctions spiral and move on to the path of lifting the sanctions and dropping the blacklists.This, in its turn, would …read more
Source: AsiaOne
