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Minsk - Moscow treats the choice made by Ukrainian citizens in the October 28 parliamentary election with respect, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

“We respect the Ukrainian people’s choice,” he said at a press conference in the Belarusian capital Minsk on Tuesday.

The existence of even stronger relations between Russia, Belarus and Ukraine would be in the interests of these three countries, Lavrov said.