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Angela Merkel calls for using every opportunity for dialogue with Russia

Angela Merkel in Brisbane had meetings with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker

BRISBANE, November 16. /TASS/. Under the conditions of the Ukrainian crisis and worse relations between the West and Russia, it is necessary to use evey opportunity for a dialogue with Moscow, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the G20 summit in Australia’s Brisbane on Sunday.

On Saturday, Angela Merkel in Brisbane had meetings with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.

“Those negotiations were trustworthy,” she said.

Press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said on Saturday at the meetings of Putin with Merkel and with Juncker “was exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine, President Putin explained in details the Russian approach to the situation.