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 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had one more telephone conversation on April 9 at the initiative of the U.S. side, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.

 “While exchanging opinions about the developments in southeast Ukraine the heads of Russian and U.S. diplomacy called for renouncing any use of force and for directing the situation to a political and legal channel through talks. In this context the Russian side once again stressed that there is no alternative to the involvement of all the regions in the process of constitutional reform,” a ministry report says.