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The presidents of Kazakhstan and the United States, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Barack Obama, exchanged opinions on key international and regional issues, with the focus being on the situation in Ukraine, during their latest telephone conversation, the Kazakh presidential press service reported on Tuesday.

“The presidents of Kazakhstan and the U.S. reaffirmed the need to
secure a peaceful settlement in Ukraine with the help of diplomatic
methods, which will help maintain the territorial integrity of this
country and bridge the gap between the positions of all the sides
concerned,” it said.

Nazarbayev said that this problem should be tackled exclusively through negotiations involving all of the concerned sides.

Obama, for his part, proposed establishing a viable mechanism under
the auspices of international organizations such as the UN or the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in order to try to
resolve the continuing crisis in Ukraine, the press service said.

Apart from that, the Kazakh and U.S. leaders discussed the current
state of bilateral relations and their prospects, as well as
preparations for the March 24-25 Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague.