MOSCOW, May 22 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged Arab leaders to implement the "road map" peace plan, the Interfax news agency said.
Putin sent a letter to an Arab League summit in Tunis, Tunisia, saying there is no alternative to the "road map," which has been approved by the so-called "quartet" composed of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.
"Any unilateral steps must not predetermine the final settlement," Putin said, adding a final settlement "can be reached only through direct negotiations and mutually acceptable agreements between the parties on a firm international legal basis stipulated primarily in U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242, 338, 1397 and 1515."
Putin's comments appeared to distance Russia from recent unilateral Israeli actions that have been backed by the United States
