Russian vice-premier and Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov claimed that it is possible to exercise a peacekeeping operation in the zone of the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict, but it should be preceded by a diplomatic settlement of this conflict. The minister expressed this idea to reporters here on Tuesday. ”It is necessary to reach, above all, a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict. This can be followed by a peacekeeping operation, including with possible participation of the Russian Armed Forces,” the minister said. “But the conflict should be settled first of all,” he emphasized. Full Story