Putin warns of 'catastrophe'

[Barrett808]

Kuala Lumpur - If unilateralism becomes the norm of international life it will lead to "chaos and catastrophe", Russian President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published here on Tuesday.

Putin was responding to a question on the US-led invasion of Iraq in an exclusive interview with the New Straits Times ahead of a planned visit to Malaysia, a mainly Muslim Southeast Asian nation.

The trip, which was to have begun on Tuesday, was postponed after suicide bombers killed 13 people at a weekend Moscow rock concert.

Putin stressed in the interview, held in Moscow, that Russia wanted to see international organisations such as the United Nations strengthened to deal with "peacekeeping and upholding international law".

The Russian president, who opposed the US invasion of Iraq, said, however: "We are satisfied with the pace of our dialogue with our partners, including the United States.

"We managed to reach an agreement on the recent (post-war) UN resolution on Iraq. And we believe that the role of the UN in settling the situation in Iraq should move to a higher level."

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[LoneStarLiberal]

1. Put-in on the Ritz

He just doesn't want to see the U.N. or other international organizations uphold international law and keep the peace in Chechnya!

I give Putin lots of respect for cleaning up after Boris the Boozer, but he is an evil little weasel. As a now-dead Chechen terrorist (if you are Russian)/freedom fighter (if you are pro-Chechen) once said of Putin: "He is short so his problem is that his heart and his asshole are not far enough apart."

[tom_paine]

2. Pooty-Poot is absolutely right

The Cowardly Emperor is leading us to more death & madness.

Grotesque that Pooty-Poot makes more sense that the Amerikan Emperor.

Of course, anyone with half a brain can see that, which excludes fully two-thirds of the Imperial Subjects of Amerika.

NOTE: Many Imperial Subjects have become this way not out of lack of intelligence but a willful choice to dumb down because thinking is to hard and thinking is boring.