RUSSIAN PREMIER: ONLY THE PARTIES TO THE KARABAKH CONFLICT MAY ARRANGE ON ITS RESOLVING

ArmInfo
2009-05-18 13:40:00

ArmInfo. Only the parties to the Karabakh conflict may arrange on
its resolving, and for their part, Russia and Turkey are ready to
support it, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Sochi after
the talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

As Russian and Turkish mass media reported, that Putin also said that
the Karabakh conflict is a complex problem and the parties to the
conflict themselves have to find a compromise. ‘All the rest states
which help reaching the compromise, may come forward as intermediaries
and guarantors of fulfillment of the arrangements made’, Putin said
and added that Russia and Turkey are concerned about resolving of
similar problems, and will support it as much as possible.

For his part, Erdogan said that Turkey and Russia have obligations
in the region. ‘We should take measures to ensure peace and welfare
in the region’, – he said. He also called Russia, which is the OSCE
MG co-chair state, to activate the efforts on the Karabakh conflict
settlement.