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UN, not US, should settle Iraq
stand-off: Russian envoy
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Feb 27 : Russia wants the United
Nations to play the final and decisive role on Iraq and the United States should honour UN
role, Valery V. Nazarov, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Nepal, said.
Speaking at a talk programme titled
"International Terrorism: A Threat to Peace, Security and Development" jointly
organised here by Nepal Council of World Affairs and Russian Centre of Science and
Culture, Ambassador Nazarov said the US must find concrete evidence or facts that Iraq
possesses weapons of mass destruction in order to launch an offensive against her.
"UN is the only body to legitimatise action against Iraq."
However, he said that Russia would prefer
peaceful political solutions to the problems of global terrorism. "An international
brand of terrorism is operating from Chechnya, posing grave threats to Russia. It has
links with al-Queda camps," he said.
Speaking on the occasion, Mohan Prasad Lohani,
former ambassador to Russia, said, "The UN is one and the only legitimate
multilateral forum to take action against global terrorism. It will become a redundant
forum if the US continues to use its unilateral stance to wage war against Iraq."
He also said that both Nepal and Russia are now
the members of a global alliance to wage a war against international terrorism.
"The visit of Nepalese foreign minister
Madhu Raman Acharya to Moscow and his Russian counterpart Gleb A Ivashentsov to Nepal in
February this year have brought the two countries closer to each other," Himala Kumar
Singh, secretary-general of the Nepal Council of World Affairs said.
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