Russia and Ukraine may come to meet their decision not through Minsk, but also through some other mechanisms, said Tillerson.
The head of the US state Department Rex Tillerson said that Russia and Ukraine can reach an agreement to resolve the crisis through other mechanisms, not necessarily recorded in the Minsk agreements.
“It is possible that the governments of Ukraine and Russia will be able to meet their solution through some other mechanisms, not in Minsk, but in this case the target of the Minsk agreements will be reached,” he said in the house of representatives of the Congress of the United States.
Answering the question of whether, in the interests of the United States to relax or lift sanctions against Russia until the Minsk agreements are implemented, Tillerson said:
“I think it’s important to have enough flexibility in order to achieve the goals of the Minsk agreement”.
He also explained why Washington does not introduce tougher sanctions against Moscow.
“Unilateral sanctions are not as effective as multilateral. And one of the challenges in front of me, if we think about additional sanctions, is how to bring our allies to the same position with us, so they took on the same responsibility,” said Tillerson.
“We can take unilateral action, but if we take them alone and we get little support from other (countries – ed.) they (sanctions – ed.) will be somewhat incomplete,” he added.
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