Lavrov hopes Western partners will realize sanctions are counterproductive

Russia March 04, 2014, 16:55

Russia's foreign minister says unilateral sanctions have never done any good

TUNIS, March 04. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expects that Western partners will understand that threats of sanctions against Russia are counterproductive.

“We have always been against unilateral sanctions. They have never come to any good,” the foreign minister said on Tuesday.

“I hope our partners will understand that this policy is counterproductive,” he added.