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奥巴马默克尔通过电话讨论乌克兰危机 WASHINGTON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday urged Russia to form a contact group that will lead to direct dialogue between Ukraine and Russia to de-escalate the Ukraine situation. During a phone talk, the two leaders also raised the issue of deploying international observers and human rights monitors to Crimea, an autonomous republic of Ukraine, the epicenter of the ongoing crisis, the White House said in a statement.
Obama welcomed "the unified position" of the United States and the European Union on Ukraine, it added.
The mostly Russian-speaking Crimea, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, has become the epicenter of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine since President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted by parliament on Feb. 22.
Russia did not recognize Ukraine's new government put in place after pro-Russian Yanukovych's ouster, and called the events in the neighboring country a coup.
In a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday, Obama proposed direct talks between the governments of Ukraine and Russia, and the deployment of international monitors.
The Kremlin's press service said the talks between Putin and Obama "revealed the divergence of approaches to and opinions of the causes of the current crisis and the existing state of affairs."
Putin said the current Ukrainian leadership, which had come to power "in an unconstitutional way as a result of government coup and lacked a national mandate," was dictating illegitimate decisions to the eastern and southeastern regions of Ukraine and Crimea.
Moscow could not ignore the requests for help addressed to it and was acting adequately and in full compliance with international law, he told Obama. |
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