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NATO Chief Meets Russia’s Lavrov, Urges Ukraine Withdrawal


NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Russia’s foreign minister met Tuesday for the first time in three months, and Stoltenberg said he restated the “very strong NATO position” against Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its support for rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Speaking later to journalists, Stoltenberg said he called on the Russians to withdraw their forces from Ukraine and to stop backing the armed insurgency in that country’s east.

Moscow flatly denies Western accusations it is aiding or supplying anti-government forces in Ukraine.

Before the meeting in Brussels, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he would “listen to what they tell us,” but placed …read more

Source: Voice of America

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