Russia to promote Karabakh conflict settlement – Putin

ITAR-TASS News Agency
March 25, 2005 Friday

YEREVAN, March 25 — Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the
situation in Nagorno Karabakh during the talks with his Armenian
counterpart Robert Kocharyan on Friday.

“We talked about the Nagorno Karabakh problem,” Putin told a news
conference.

“We will promote the settlement of this conflict,” he emphasized. “We
will hope for the soonest meeting of the presidents of Armenia and
Azerbaijan,” Putin pointed out.