German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a news conference in Berlin, Germany, July 28, 2016. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
BERLIN (Reuters) - There is no reason to lift the European Union's sanctions against Russia as Moscow has not fulfilled all of its commitments under an international peace plan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview published on Friday.
Merkel told the RedaktionsNetzwerks Deutschland (RND) that Russia had caused a major crisis by annexing the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and with its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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