6 Mar 2014 13:54

Corrected: Russian, Israeli foreign ministers address crisis in Ukraine at meeting in Rome

(to change 'loan' to 'crisis' throughout news item issued at 1.45 p.m.)

ROME. March 6 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman addressed the crisis in Ukraine at a meeting in Rome.

"I know you discussed the crisis in Ukraine in Paris," Lieberman said.

"And not only there," Lavrov replied.

The ministers are talking in Russian, and members of the press were asked to leave the room after the two ministers' protocol phrases.