Russia's Permanent Representative to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, speaking about the Russian-EU relations, said that they are being reconsidered now.
Today, the state of relations between Russia and the EU is abnormal, Chizhov admitted. But in the future he hopes to "return to normal relations." "But it will be different relations, more pragmatic and based on mutual interests," Russia's Permanent Representative to the EU said.
The issue of anti-Russian sanctions is not the subject of Russia’s negotiations with the European Union, Russian EU Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov said in an interview with the Izvestia daily.
"I would not like to speak about the future of sanctions, especially guess when and in which form their fate will be determined," the diplomat said. He recalled that discussion is scheduled for the "EU summit in June, but this is not the subject of our negotiations and discussion with the EU". "This is the problem they created and they are to solve it," Chizhov stressed.
According to him, more and more EU countries are speaking against sanctions. "Indeed, an increasingly growing number of countries, more and more leaders speak out in favor of ending this practice of sanctions, not only in contacts with us but also publicly," he said.
