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RFE/RL: NATO-Russia Council meeting aims to defuse tensions

Published May 31, 2018 at 10:45 am

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a speech during the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Spring Session on May 28, 2018 in the Polish capital Warsaw. / AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI

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NATO ambassadors are due to meet with their Russian counterparts on May 31 for talks on the conflict in Ukraine, reducing tensions over military maneuvers, and other issues.

Relations between Russia and the Western military alliance have soured since 2014 primarily due to Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.