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THE European Union renewed for another year its sanctions against Zimbabwe, including a travel ban and asset freeze on President Robert Mugabe and his wife, according to a notice on Friday in the EU's Official Journal.

According to the notice deceased Zanu PF politicians Edward Chindori Chininga, Stanley Sakupwanya, and Nathan Shamuyarira were removed from the sanctions list.

"The restrictive measures should be renewed until Feb. 20, 2016," the notice read.

"The application of the travel ban and asset freeze should be maintained for two persons."

Zanu PF spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo condemned the decision.

"The sanctions against the First Family are illegal," he told state media Friday.

"We have maintained that they should be removed because they aren't justified. Zimbabwe isn't excited by such nonsensical statements.

"These illegal sanctions have done nothing but to destroy our economy. It doesn't matter what they try to do to us, we will persevere just like we have been doing all these years.

"We're a resilient nation. The country will continue with its indigenisation policy and implementation of ZimAsset. If we need assistance, that assistance will come from our friends all over the world."

Since imposing sanctions in 2002 over electoral fraud and human rights abuses, the EU has eased measures to encourage political reform in Zimbabwe, although it has kept its ban on Mugabe and his wife Grace, as well as an arms embargo.

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New Delhi : Russia Friday slammed a reported call of the European Union's envoy to India to "persuade" Russia over the turmoil in eastern Ukraine as "a case of sheer duplicity and sly distortion of the core reasons which led to the intra-Ukrainian conflict".

The Russian embassy in a statement said: "The European Union should retrospect on its own policy of appeasement instead of trying to seek India's services in persuading Russia to do something.

"Such kind of 'persuasion' is alien to Russia-India relations. Our special and privileged strategic partnership has no relation to the West's blunders in their policies towards the Ukraine and Kiev's self-induced crisis.

"We highly value India's balanced and independent approach to this issue," it said.

"The EU should better think how to pay that country's bills for natural gas and bail out its economy from falling into the abyss. And, lastly, a piece of friendly advice - do not try to meddle in Russia-India relations. They are immune to such kind of unsolicited and impolite interventions from outside," it said.

The European Union Wednesday pitched for India's engagement to resolve the Ukraine crisis, saying it can use its privileged relations with Russia to persuade the country to abide by international laws as well as the ceasefire agreement.

European Union Ambassador Joao Cravinho said India can play an important role in finding a peaceful solution to the Ukraine crisis on which Western countries have threatened Russia of more sanctions if it fails to de-escalate the tension.

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