France intends to fight for the abolition of the anti-Russian sanctions in the EU by the summer of this year, Minister of Economy of France Emmanuel Macron said in his speech addressed to the French entrepreneurs in Moscow.
"Our goal is to have the opportunity to lift the sanctions against Russia this summer, if the Minsk agreements are respected," Interfax quotes him.
Earlier, the US Secretary of State John Kerry said that he sees the prospect of full implementation of the Minsk agreements in the coming months, and subsequent lifting of sanctions in regard with the Ukrainian crisis.