Cooperation of EU countries with Russia will be restricted until the Minsk agreements are implemented, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated.

The Minsk agreements need to be implemented … until they are not implemented, the opportunities for cooperation for us will be completely different from what we would like, Merkel told reporters at a joint press conference with President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda in Berlin.

According to Merkel, the parties discussed these issues at the talks on August 14.

(C) Interfax Ukraine