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EU Must Impose Anti-Ukraine Sanctions Over Poor Minsk Accords Adherence

© AFP 2023 / ALEKSEY CHERNYSHEVUkrainian servicemen shout from SPG-9 antitank grenade launcher during the combat with the pro-Russian separatists near Avdeevka, Donetsk region, on June 18, 2015
Ukrainian servicemen shout from SPG-9 antitank grenade launcher during the combat with the pro-Russian separatists near Avdeevka, Donetsk region, on June 18, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Sanctions should be imposed against Ukraine over Kiev's failure to implement a single reform stipulated by the Minsk accords on Ukrainian settlement, French lawmaker Thierry Mariani said.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In February 2015, a peace agreement was signed between Kiev and east Ukrainian pro-independence militias. The Minsk accords include a full ceasefire, a weapons withdrawal from the line of contact, an all-for-all prisoner exchange, constitutional reforms, including a decentralization of power in the country, and granting special status to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

"So far, the Verkhovna Rada has not carried out a single reform stipulated by the Minsk II accords. This is why we back the lifting of sanctions against Russia. Excuse me, but logically, there are two ways. First, anti-Russian sanctions must be lifted, and second, sanctions must be introduced against Ukraine. Because right now, Kiev is showing disrespect by failing to implement the Minsk accords. The main responsibility is with the Ukrainian side," Mariani said in an interview with the Russian Izvestia newspaper, published on Friday.

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In April, the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament, supported a resolution calling to lift the sanctions imposed on Russia. The French Senate will vote on the resolution on June 8. According to French lawmakers, the bill was met with almost unanimous support in the Senate Committee for the European Affairs.

The chances of the Senate approving the resolution are high, Mariani said, adding that the upper house is dominated by his opposition party The Republicans, which had a harder time pushing the resolution through the Socialist-dominated lower house.

"This resolution send a certain signal to the government…popular opinion appears to contradicts the idea of sanctions," he stressed.

The United States, the European Union and some of their allies have imposed several rounds of sanctions targeting key sectors of the Russian economy, as well as a number of individuals and entities, over Crimea’s reunification with Russia and accusations of Moscow's alleged interference in the Ukrainian conflict, which the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.

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