PARIS, March 27. /TASS/. Western countries who are members of the so-called Coalition of the Willing on Ukraine will look for ways of circumventing Hungary’s veto on extending anti-Russian sanctions, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
"The cooperation between the countries whose leaders met in Paris today will be aimed at searching for solutions that may sometimes be unconventional. For example, in order to extend anti-Russian sanctions," he told reporters at a news conference broadcast by TVP Info.
"I’ve raised the question of looking for ways to make a common EU approach to Russia possible, even if Hungary is not interested," he added.
French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier in the day that participants in the Paris summit on supporting Kiev in the conflict with Moscow believe that the time has not yet come to lift anti-Russian sanctions. Earlier, the Euractiv portal wrote citing European diplomats that the European Union was not planning to change its policy of anti-Russian sanctions and to reconnect Russian banks to the SWIFT payment system. According to the portal, this may hinder the agreements reached by Russia and the United States during consultations in Saudi Arabia.
Following consultations between Russia and the US in Riyadh, the Kremlin announced an agreement on the implementation of the Black Sea initiative, including measures to ensure the safety of navigation. The agreements on the Black Sea will take effect once sanctions on Russian banks facilitating trade in agricultural products and mineral fertilizers are lifted.