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Berlin will not recognize the legitimacy of annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia and will not accept Moscow's destabilization of the situation in eastern Ukraine. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said this at the German-Russian conference Potsdam Meetings on May 30, an Ukrinform correspondent reports from Germany.

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