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Washington - The U.S. authorities will seek to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine through diplomatic means, U.S. President Barack Obama has told his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in Washington.

‘We are going to continue to help to mobilize the international community towards a diplomatic solution [to the crisis]. And we are prepared to support Ukraine in negotiations with Russia in order to make sure that the Ukrainian people can enjoy the kind of freedom and prosperity that is their right,’ he said after a meeting with Poroshenko in the Oval Office of the White House.

Obama also welcomed the adoption by the Ukrainian parliament of a draft law on a special local government order in certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.