The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Germany Sergey Lavrov Frank-Walter Steinmeier met in Basel, Switzerland and discussed the European agenda, as well as among them in the context of the situation in Ukraine, informs on Thursday the website of the Russian diplomatic vedomctva.

" They discussed topical issues of the European agenda, as well as among them in the context of the situation in Ukraine, as well as certain practical aspects of Russian-German relations ", - said in the report, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

in Basel on December 4-5, held a meeting of the Council of Ministers of foreign Affairs of the OSCE countries.


numerous anti-government protests Were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local residents to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language.

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