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MOSCOW - Russia has agreed to postpone until September trilateral ministerial consultations on the Ukraine-EU association agreement, First Deputy Economic Development Minister Alexei Likhachev told journalists.

“If our colleagues are not ready for talks in July, how can we motivate them?” he said, adding that no new date has been set for the time being.

Likhachev said that expert consultations all the same would take place on July 7-8.

Earlier the EU put forward the initiative for postponing the ministerial meeting of Russia, Ukraine and the EU.