Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed in a telephone conversation the situation following a missile launch by North Korea, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"The situation around the missile launch carried out by North Korea the day before was in the focus of attention. The sides stated that this move came as a new rude violation by Pyongyang of numerous resolutions by the UN Security Council," the ministry said in a statement.
According to it, Lavrov had emphasized that search for political-diplomatic ways to overcome tensions on the Korean peninsula had no alternative and stressed the importance of refraining from any military moves fraught with unpredictable consequences, TASS reported.
