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UNIAN: Lithuanian FM says sanctions against Russia could be extended

By UNIAN.

Published April 16, 2018. Updated April 16 at 3:35 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (back, C) hosts Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), French President Francois Hollande (foreground, C) and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) during talks for peace in eastern Ukraine at the chancellery on October 19, 2016 in Berlin. Merkel said the talks, the first four-way summit for a year, were aimed at "offering a brutally honest assessment" of progress on implementing the frayed Minsk peace accords for Ukraine. / AFP PHOTO / dpa Pool / Michael Kappeler

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Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius says Russia sanctions over its aggression in Ukraine can be extended for 12 months rather than six months.

“We have sanctions because of Minsk. Since we have no progress in Minsk, so additional sanctions or at least extension for 12 months rather than six months could really take place,” he said at the Foreign Affairs Council, taking place in Luxembourg on April 16, 2018, according to a UNIAN correspondent in Brussels.