TOO EARLY TO CONSIDER PEACEKEEPERS' DEPLOYMENT IN KARABAKH - DM

Interfax, Russia
Jan 24 2006

BAKU. Jan 24 (Interfax) - It is too early to speak about a deployment of peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh in order to settle the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict, Russian Vice Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said.

"It is too early to speak about military operations in the Karabakh, because political and diplomatic means for settling the conflict have not been exhausted," Ivanov told journalists in Baku on Tuesday.

"A cart should not be placed in front of a horse," he said.