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Baku – APA. US President Barack Obama has said that Russia is not abiding by agreements aimed at defusing the crisis in Ukraine, in his first public comments since the Geneva meeting, APA reports quoting RTE News. President Obama, who was speaking in Tokyo at the start of a four-nation tour of Asia, said he had been pessimistic from the off that Moscow would stick to what was agreed in Geneva. "So far at least we have seen them not abide by the spirit or the letter of the agreement in Geneva," he said.
"We have already applied sanctions that have had an impact on the Russian economy. We have continued to hold out the prospect, the possibility to resolve the issue diplomatically.”
However, he warned, if Russia did not play its part, there would be "consequences and we will ramp up further sanctions".
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