United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Moscow's Kremlin, March 20, 2014. REUTERS/Sergei Ilnitsky
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday he was "deeply concerned" by the crisis between Russia and Ukraine.
Ban met Putin as Russia's lower house of parliament voted to approve a treaty the Russian leader signed on Tuesday to absorb the Ukrainian region of Crimea into Russia, a move that has caused the biggest East-West confrontation since the Cold War.
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