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MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallstrom discussed the situation in Ukraine in a meeting at the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Basel on Thursday.

“The ministers discussed the causes of the crisis in Ukraine and the possible ways of its de-escalation,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a report posted on its website.

The meeting took place on Wallstrom’s initiative.