Reuters
April 19, 2014
The Kremlin on Friday described as unacceptable a U.S. threat to impose sanctions if Russia fails to fulfil its side of an international deal on Ukraine, accusing the White House of treating Moscow like a “guilty schoolboy”.
President Barack Obama said Thursday’s deal in Geneva between Russia, Ukraine and Western powers to reduce tensions in the Russian-speaking east of Ukraine was promising but that Washington and its allies were prepared to impose more sanctions on Russia if the situation fails to improve.
“Statements like those made at a high level in Washington that the United States will follow in detail how Russia fulfils its obligations … are unlikely to help dialogue,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said.
“You can’t treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework,” Peskov said in an interview with Russia’s First Channel. “That kind of language is unacceptable.”
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