Interfax: Russia will wait patiently for EU to come out of “sanctions spiral” – Russian Foreign Ministry

ANOSINO (Moscow region). Dec 1 (Interfax) – Russia remains the main energy partner of the European Union and will wait for the EU to come out of the sanctions spiral, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Nebenzya said.

“We are working on the assumption that there is no real alternative to mutual and equal cooperation between Russia and the EU. Russia will remain the main partner for the EU in energy sphere in the foreseeable future,” Nebenzya said at a meeting with deputy governors on issues relating to domestic policy and social issues held in the Sberbank Corporate University in the Moscow region.

Nebenzya said it is in the interests of Russia and the EU to deepen cooperation in various spheres.

“We will be waiting patiently for them to understand that and take themselves out of the sanctions spiral into which they have put themselves,” he said.