Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday stressed the need for a “solely political” resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and pledged to help Armenia and Azerbaijan hammer out a peace accord.
“We will do everything to settle [the conflict,] to find solutions acceptable to both sides,” Putin said during an annual question-and-answer session aired live by Russian television.
“There should certainly be long-term solutions on Karabakh,” he said. “They can be achieved by solely — I want to emphasize this, it’s a seemingly clichéd phrase but I can’t think of any other — political means. A compromise needs to to be found.
“I seemed to me several years ago that we have come close to that compromise by both sides. But unfortunately it turned out not be the case.”
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“We will work, both within the framework of international structures and on a bilateral basis, on settling the Karabakh problem,” Putin added, answering one of the questions from citizens around Russia.
