Politico: Danish foreign minister calls on EU and US to maintain Russian sanctions

Published Feb. 7, 2017 at 11:57 am

(From L) Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks with Romania's Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu (R) and Denmark's Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen (C) during an EU foreign ministers meeting at the European Council, in Brussels, on January 16, 2017.

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After a visit near the front in eastern Ukraine, where fighting and casualties have worsened in recent days, Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen called on the European Union and the United States to maintain sanctions on Russia.

“There is a kind of broad agreement in Denmark that we should stick to sanctions,” Samuelsen said on Feb. 6 during a visit to Brussels where he attended a meeting of EU foreign ministers as well as a conference on Ukraine’s economy at the Centre for European Policy Studies.