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MUNICH - The meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has begun in Munich, an Interfax correspondent reports.

Last Wednesday, Stoltenberg said at a press conference in Brussels that his upcoming meeting with Lavrov was part of a political dialogue between NATO and Russia.

He said he intended to explain to the Russian side that the steps of the alliance to build up defenses in Eastern Europe were purely defensive.