ST. PETERSBURG. April 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia and Germany believe that the main task in handling the Iraq issue is to bring it back to the framework of the United Nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
He said he and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder are convinced of "the hopelessness of seeking a military solution" to the crisis.
"Our countries can and must do everything possible to preserve the global system of international law that is based on the supremacy of the UN," Putin told St. Petersburg Dialogue, a Russian-German forum in Russia's second city.
Putin said he and Schroeder believed in the supremacy of international law.
The Russian president also advocated an effective European security system.
"Europe's stability is largely synonymous with the stability well- known new threats, we should doubtlessly work together," he said.
He also said Russia and Germany have been working very closely on the UN Security Council for the past few months. "We have been using the same foreign policy system," he said.