"We agreed on the content of the next Security Council resolution," Steinmeier said after the meeting of foreign ministers from the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany in Berlin.

A senior US official said the new resolution "increases the severity of the sanctions already in place and will also introduce new elements."

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