Moscow is ready to support the resolution on Iraq, in which the UN will be assigned the role of a real participant in the arrangement of the country, ”said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with the American media. According to him, the document should strictly define the mandate of international forces. Putin emphasized that the issue of sending Russian troops to Iraq is not considered.

Recently, the book "White on black" was published in Spain. The author is Ruben David Gonzalez Galeo. This book, however, was written not in Spanish, but in Russian, in Russia it was published last year by the Limbus Press publishing house. From Russian, she was transferred to Spanish. And earlier, also from Russian - to French. Ruben Galeo now lives in Madrid, from there he participates by phone in our program. And he was born and raised in Russia. It grew up in children's wheelchairs.

The authorities of the Indian state of Gujarat decided to execute a leopard, who killed seven people over the past month. His last victims were a woman and a child in the village of Dhanpur. The leopard manages not to fall into traps and traps. The hunters are given a decree to shoot the animal as soon as possible. In Gujarat, about a thousand leopards, who are alleged, have killed 37 people over the past 8 years.

In Berlin, the leaders of Germany, France and Great Britain are trying to resolve contradictions on the Iraqi issue. The German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Shirak, who opposed the war in Iraq, believe that the UN should play a key role in the post -war restoration of Starna. According to the Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair, the United States should lead the international efforts to stabilize Iraq.

In Pakistan, in the south of the capital of the country - Islamabad, at least 27 people died as a result of a collision of a bus with a train. Several people are seriously injured. All the dead are passengers of the bus, who tried to slip through the railway crossing before the passing composition. The police said that the move did not have the necessary equipment.

The International Human Rights of Human Rights, based in Geneva, expressed concern in connection with the latest persecution of human rights activists in Belarus. The statement of the human rights group says that Minsk filed a lawsuit to close Vyosna’s human rights center in connection with his participation in independent observation of the 2001 presidential election, when serious violations were discovered.

In Latvia on Saturday, a referendum was held on joining the European Union. According to the election commission, more than 68 percent of voters voted. Polls at the exit from the polling stations show that 69 percent of those who participated in the referendum supported the accession to the European Union, 31 percent of Latvia - the last of the ten Candidate countries to the EU, in which such a referendum took place.

The Prime Minister of Japan Junitiro Koizumi will remain the head of government and the leader of the ruling liberal-democratic party (LDP) for another three years. At today's Congress, the LDP Koizumi won over three other applicants for the post of chairman of the party. Since liberal democrats have a majority of places in the parliament of Japan, the party leader automatically becomes the head of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Arkady Dubnov: The results of the Yalta CIS summit to evaluate, apparently, early. The main event of the summit is the signing of the “big four” of the Commonwealth - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan Agreement on the creation of a single economic space (EEP), might seem impressive, if not for serious unrest about the possibility of its full -scale implementation. In the meantime, this agreement is only a framework in nature, which Russian President Vladimir Putin did not hide.

In Baghdad this morning, as a result of an armed attack, a member of the country's ruling council was wounded - Akila al -Hashim. According to local doctors, it is hospitalized in critical condition. According to the American command and Iraqi police, the car al-Khashi was fired at the center of the Iraqi capital. One of the attackers was detained. Al -Khashih is one of three women in the ruling council, which includes 25 people.

In the southeast of Afghanistan, 9 Taliban were killed as a result of American aviation strikes over the past week, the Province of Zabul said. 8 civilians were also killed. In the east of the country in the province of Lagman, a house exploded in which explosives were stored. According to various sources, from 1 to 8 people died.

The tragedies, similar to the mass murder of Bosnian Muslims in the city of Srebrenits in 1995, should not be repeated, ”said US ex -president Bill Clinton, on a visit to Bosnia. The former American president was present at the opening of the memorial to the victims of the Srebrenitsa. The ceremony was attended by about 20 thousand people.

In Ingushetia, an explosion occurred in the territory of the fleet of the Nazran border detachment last night. There is no data on the victims. In the control building of the detachment, glass was knocked out and the doors are torn. In the scene of the incident are the investigative groups of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB of Ingushetia.

The head of the ruling Council of Iraq Ahmad Chalabi accused Saddam Hussein's supporters of an armed attack on a member of the Council Akil al-Khashim. On Saturday morning, her car was fired in the center of Baghdad. Al-khashiy with severe wounds is in the hospital. According to the American command and Iraqi police, one of the attackers managed to detain. Al -Khashiy - Shiitka, one of the three women who are part of the ruling council.

The International Monetary Fund approved the financial assistance of Argentina in the amount of $ 12 and a half billion for the next three years. The decision was made on Saturday at a meeting of the IMF in Dubai, where a meeting of the Ministers of Finance and the heads of national banks of the Big Seven countries takes place. The economy of Argentina is undergoing a crisis.