YEREVAN, JULY 28, ARMENPRESS. If elected U.S. president, Donald Trump, the Republican Party's candidate, intends to consider issues on recognition of Crimea as a Russian region and on removal of sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, Trump told a news conference in Florida, reports TASS.

Answering a reporter's question of he would recognize Crimea as part of Russia and if he would consider a possibility of lifting sanctions from Russia in case he won the presidential race, Trump said that they would consider the issues but added no more details.

Meanwhile, the party's delegates supported maintaining sanctions against Russia in the 2016 Republican Platform approved at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland (Ohio).