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BUDAPEST - Moscow cannot accept EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and European Commission Vice President Federica Mogherini's position on tying the restoration of strategic partnership between Russia and the EU to the implementation of the Minsk Agreements, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

“It appears that the restoration of strategic partnership between Russia and the European Union depends on Kyiv’s whims and position, while the latter is trying to do all it can to distort these Minsk Agreements or dispose of them altogether. We cannot accept the European Union official’s logic,” Lavrov said at a press conference with his Hungarian counterpart in Budapest on May 25.