"We cannot and will not lift the sanctions that expire in
July or September until the demands of the Minsk agreement have
been fulfilled. That would be wrong," she told the Bundestag
lower house of parliament.
She also said that the goal of the EU's eastern partnership is
to improve the standard of living for people there, it is not
about EU or NATO membership for those countries.
(Reporting by Stephen Brown, Michelle Martin and Madeline
Chambers)
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