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U.S. President Barack Obama said that the G7 member states should continue to seek ways to resolve the situation in Ukraine, where a high level of violence is still being recorded, according to an UNIAN correspondent reporting on Obama’s visit to Japan where he participates in the G7 Summit.
"We began to touch on some of the key security issues that are important to all of us. South China Sea and maritime security… [we] touched on issues surrounding Ukraine," Obama said.
In connection with the situation in Ukraine, the U.S. president said: "We started to see some progress in negotiations, but we’re still seeing too much violence, and we need to get that resolved."
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The U.S. president said that tomorrow, 27 May, he would visit Hiroshima.