Russia to do all it can to help Nagorno-Karabakh settlement-Putin

ITAR-TASS News Agency
March 25, 2005 Friday

YEREVAN, March 25 — Russia will do all it can to help settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, President Vladimir Putin said.

He said at the ceremony of opening a Year of Russia in Armenia on
Friday that Russia and Armenia “are interested in stabilisation of
the situation in the Transcaucasus”.

“We know what hard ordeal the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has proved for
the region. And Russia is ready to do all it can in order long-waited
peace and long-waited accord return to this land,” Putin said.