”None will lift sanctions from Russia until the RF withdraws its troops,
stops sending tanks and artillery, stops their terrorists, restores control
over Ukrainian-Russian border and implements the Minsk commitments as whole,”
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed at a media conference on
Monday, January 19.
A joint press
conference of Prime Minister of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Poland Ewa Kopacz took place following
the Ukrainian-Polish intergovernmental consultations.
Arseniy
Yatsenyuk informed that he had had talks with a Ukraine’s representative to the
EU regarding the Foreign Affairs Council’s meeting, which had just winded up and
there was held a press conference of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland on
the outcomes.
The principal
issues for the EU Foreign Affairs Council, Arseniy Yatsenyuk explained,
include a global world security and the Russian aggression against Ukraine,
"We welcome the fact that our partners, the European Union member states,
today had a very frank and long talk about Russia and the Russian military
aggression on the territory of Ukraine".
He stressed
that the main conclusion after today's Council’s meeting "is the fact that
Europe were and are still united to condemn the Russian military aggression and
continue sanctions against Russia".
“None will
lift sanctions from Russia until the RF withdraws its troops, stops sending
tanks and artillery, stops their terrorists, restores control over
Ukrainian-Russian border and implements the Minsk commitments as whole, which
was inked by the Russian Federation,” the PM underlined.
"Ukraine
is fighting for its independence. Ukraine is fighting for peace in the country.
But Ukraine is also fighting for peace and security in entire Europe," he
stressed.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
noted "an incredibly high level of bilateral cooperation between Ukraine
and the Republic of Poland and the support of Ukraine by Poland”, “Much within
the European Union depends on a powerful, firm and correct position of our
Polish friends".