EU keeps Russia sanctions in place, sees "encouraging" signs

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30-09-2014 | 08:00
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EU keeps Russia sanctions in place, sees "encouraging" signs
The European Union decided on Tuesday to keep in place a package of economic sanctions against Russia over its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine despite what it called "encouraging developments" on the ground after a ceasefire deal.     

The 28-nation EU has imposed sanctions on Russia's finance, defence and energy sectors and has frozen the assets of some 140 Russian and Ukrainian individuals and companies over Moscow's role in Ukraine.          

EU officials said it was too early to lift the sanctions despite the ceasefire agreed between Kiev and the rebels, which Brussels views as a first step towards ending the worst standoff between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War.      

"We are keeping the status quo," one official said after EU ambassadors reviewed the implementation of the ceasefire and a wider peace plan for the region agreed in Minsk on Sept. 5.        

Envoys noted that "encouraging developments have been registered in the political process and in the implementation of some aspects of the Minsk Protocol", EU spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said, adding that a permanent ceasefire was required.       

The ceasefire has been marred by regular violations but has broadly held.          

When the EU adopted its latest sanctions package on Russia, ambassadors had agreed they would review the implementation of the Ukraine peace plan by the end of September.          

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, who chairs EU summits, held out the possibility that, if the situation on the ground warranted it, sanctions could be amended, suspended or even fully repealed.       

However, EU diplomats said there was no question of easing the sanctions on Russia at this stage.           


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