SERGEY IVANOV: RUSSIA STANDS FOR POLITICAL RESOLUTION OF KARABAKH PROBLEM

PanARMENIAN.Net
31.05.2006 13:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russia stands for the political resolution of the
Nagorno Karabakh problem, Russian Vice-Premier, Defense Minister Sergey
Ivanov said Wednesday in Baku. “We are for peaceful and political
settlement of the conflict. Russia along with the United States and
France is the Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno Karabakh,”
he said at a news conference upon completion of the sitting of the
CIS Council of Ministers. In his words, the OSCE Minsk Group is the
right way towards the problem resolution.

“Any settlement format imposed from outside in not only
counter-productive but also dangerous,” the Russian Defense Minister
stated, reported Interfax.