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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France?
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To: Fast Eddie who wrote (237)3/1/2003 4:46:27 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 662
 
Any gibe on the Russkies??

Bush presses for Putin's vote at UN
Michael Wines/NYT
Saturday, March 1, 2003

MOSCOW Once again and with fervor, President Vladimir Putin on Friday rebuffed American calls to support a possible military campaign in Iraq, warning in an interview that war could throw the Islamic world into political turmoil and arguing that "a crisis of this kind should be solved by exclusively peaceful means."

But with equal fervor, the United States appears to be pulling out all its diplomatic and economic stops in an effort to break Putin's intransigence and win a crucial swing vote in the Iraq standoff in the United Nations.

In a blitz of meetings and conversations with their Russian counterparts, American leaders and officials have begun what one called the endgame in the Iraq debate, arguing that Russian opposition in the United Nations could do tangible damage to the new relationship between the two nations - and leave the Kremlin on the sidelines when reconstruction of a post-Saddam Iraq begins.

Since Sunday, Under Secretary of State John Bolton has pleaded the White House's case in Moscow before Russia's Foreign Ministry and President George W. Bush has lobbied Putin by telephone. Putin's chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin, held an extraordinary round of meetings with virtually every major White House player in the crisis, from Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a visit to Washington this past week.
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