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Give power to Iraqis: Putin

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW, MAY 28. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, called for an early transfer of full power to an Iraqi Government.

Mr. Putin discussed the situation in Iraq with the U.S. President, George W. Bush, in a telephone conversation on Friday, the Kremlin press service said.

Earlier today Mr. Putin said a new U.N. resolution on Iraq should give an Iraqi government real power.

"This resolution will work only if it allows the Iraqi people to take its fate in its own hands and creates a mechanism for the rebuilding of real sovereignty," Mr. Putin said after talks with the visiting President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak.

"Violence keeps escalating in Iraq and the longer this continues the harder it is to resolve this problem," Mr. Putin said. "Therefore the sooner the sovereignty of Iraq is restored the better. The question is how this can be done." Mr. Putin said Moscow would press for the new U.N. resolution to put real power into the Iraqi hands.

"The (United Nations) organisation will be compromised if it adopts a resolution just for the sake of adopting something," Mr. Putin said.

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