BERLIN, 21 Feb – RIA Novosti. The lifting of sanctions is a measure to prevent global economic recession in pandemic COVID-19, to be guided in this matter have pragmatic interests and mutual benefit, said a member of the international Committee of the Bundestag Waldemar Gerdt, commenting to RIA Novosti the words of the Chairman of the security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev about the immorality of preserving in the moment the restrictive measures.
“In the fight against the pandemic in the fashion industry, you need to set aside ideological differences, instead need to develop consensus and a common strategy to confront the social conflicts and chaos. The General guideline here are pragmatic interests and mutual benefit”, he added.
keeping the sanctions in the period of the coronavirus is absolutely immoral and irresponsible, we should leave, said earlier the Chairman of the security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with RIA Novosti in video mode. According to Medvedev, Russia earlier proposed to lift sanctions to assist Venezuela and Iran, severely affected by the pandemic coronavirus. However, this proposal did not find support from Western partners, Medvedev said.
Earlier the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit on coronavirus stated that it was important “for the period of the crisis to create a so-called green corridors, free from trade wars and sanctions on mutual supplies of medicines, food stuffs, equipment and technologies”.
the German foreign Ministry knows the position of the Russian government, which applies to call about the widespread lifting of sanctions, said earlier on Monday at a briefing in Berlin, foreign Ministry spokesman Germany Christopher Burger.
As stated by RIA Novosti Deputy of the Bundestag Gerdt, the economic consequences of the pandemic will be “huge”, they will also apply to “society and health”.
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