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BRUSSELS - Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter is not very optimistic about the developments in eastern Ukraine.

The only thing we can now do is to stabilize the situation. This is a lot, but not enough, he told reporters in Brussels after a meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders.

The solution to the conflict in Ukraine can only be political, Le Temps, the Swiss newspaper, quoted him as saying.