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Envoy champions multi-polar world

By Kanwar Yogendra

SHIMLA, APRIL 3. "The United States uni-polarity is inconvenient to us as well as to the whole World", said Mr. Vyacheslav I. Trubrikov, the Russian Ambassador to India. In a late evening interaction with the newsmen here yesterday, he said a number of new international powers like the European Union, China, Japan, India and Brazil are rapidly emerging on the global scene, and are leading to a multi-polar world which could be an ideal state of affairs for all.

Rejecting the cold war-era of a sharp bi-polar world and continued inability of providing a leadership to the `non imperialist' world due to internal crises in Russia the Ambassador encouraged the concept of "multi-polarity" in the contemporary world. Though denying working of an apparent Russia-China-India axis against the US hegemony, he said there are vast possibilities of economic and military cooperation.

Talking strongly against the American supremacy and control in international relations he said, instead of one sided domination there should be two way participation. Indicating the recent sale of F-16 aircrafts to Pakistan by US as `disturbing' in the region, he said the foreign relations can also be built on cooperation and mutual basis rather then the seller and buyer relations always. He called the F-16 deal as very unfortunate when the neighbours were moving towards a more prudent and sensible relationship.

On India's entry into UN Security Council, he reiterated the Russian stand of giving India its due as a first rate member. He also talked of the renewal of economic and social relations with India as Russia is coming out of its own problems of internal stability and economic growth.

"We can not ignore the trusted allies in order to forge new alliances", said Trubrikov while identifying fields of cooperation in thermal, hydel, space and military technologies. But he simultaneously agreed that there is a big information gap now between the two countries after the dismantling of the erstwhile Soviet Union.

The Russian Emissary also offered to give know-how for the development of the hill State. He stressed the need and urgency on the part of political leadership here to sell "brand Himachal" in Russia where people can afford to travel now and to the world which is totally unaware of the scenic hill State.

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