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Ukraine trade pact talks with Russia end without result

President Vladimir Putin said this week that Moscow would suspend the country’s free trade zone with Ukraine from January, when a Ukraine-EU trade agreement is set to be fully implemented.

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EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said after three-way talks in Brussels on Monday that “there was no agreement, so this exercise is now over”.


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The FTA accord will come into force on January 1. They were strengthened after separatists in eastern Ukraine, backed by Russian firepower, downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014 as it was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, killing all 298 people onboard. The new sanctions match those put in place by Americas allies and demonstrate Washingtons “unwavering resolve to pressure Russian Federation to respect the security and sovereignty of Ukraine, ” Smith added.

“On 21 December 2015, the Council prolonged EU economic sanctions against Russian Federation until 31 July 2016”, the EU Council press service said in a communique in Brussels on Monday.

Russian Federation lashed out at theEuropean Unionfor prolonging sanctions over theUkrainecrisis rather than choosing to cooperate over issues including the fight against terrorism.

Besides the economic sanctions, the European Union has imposed a separate travel ban and asset freezes on Russian and Ukrainian individuals blamed for the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Moscow considered the new round of US Ukraine-related sanctions as a continuation of the unfriendly stance toward Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented. The department called six separatists and two former Ukrainian government officials “complicit” in corruption or destabilizing Ukraine.

It is important to point towards the fact that the sanctions would target Russia’s financial, energy and defence sectors. Mr. Klimkin said cease-fire violations had increased in the past month and that there was no progress on exchanging hostages, not even the wounded.

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The mercenaries have been also redeployed in the Gorlovka direction, he said. Western governments have sought to work more closely with Moscow over the crisis in Syria to combat the threat of Islamic State following the terrorist attacks in Paris in November.

European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom addresses a news conference on the publication of the EU proposal on sustainable development in the negotiations for a TTIP in Brussels Belgium