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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on the Ambassadors of the G7 countries to condemn and not to recognize Russian elections in Russian-occupied Crimea.

“I would like to discuss Russian elections of March 18. This would be critically important for us to have your firm statement condemning and not recognizing Russian elections in Crimea,” Poroshenko said at a meeting with the Ambassadors of the G7 countries: the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, the presidential press service reports.

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