(Corrects paragraph 2 to say Sanchez is Spain's prime minister, not president)
BERLIN, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Western countries need to demand clear steps from Russia to de-escalate the situation on the Ukrainian-Russian border as any military aggression would have serious political and economic consequences, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday.
"That's why it's our job to do everything we can to ensure that such a development can be avoided," Scholz told a news conference after a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. (Reporting by Zuzanna Szymanska and Paul Carrel; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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