(Reuters) – The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the European Union’s decision to grant EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova would have “negative consequences”.
“With the decision to grant Ukraine and Moldova candidate status, the European Union has confirmed that it continues to exploit the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States, former USSR) at the geopolitical level, in l ‘using to ‘contain’ Russia,” ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
“They (the Europeans) do not think about the negative consequences of such an initiative,” she adds.
(Reuters report, French version Tangi Salaün)
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