Lavrov: Sanctions against Russia provide 'a window of opportunity'
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that sanctions against the Russian Federation provide a window of opportunity, Rosbalt reported.
"We regard the economic restrictions that apply to us today as a window of opportunity… This window of opportunity should be used to strengthen our food safety and to continue to diversify the economic sector,” Lavrov stated.
"I would say that a pressing question for us is not about when anti-Russian sanctions are lifted... For us the crucial issue is how effectively we use the current situation in the interests of our own economy and development,” the Foreign Minister stressed.
On May 27th, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia was preparing to extend the food embargo until the end of 2017.
The G7 recently issued a declaration stating that the "terms of the sanctions are linked to the full implementation of the Minsk Agreements. Sanctions can be lifted when Moscow fulfills those commitments.”