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Russia, China vow to build a multi-polar world

Vladimir Radyuhin

"Problems facing mankind can be solved only under a just and rational order"

MOSCOW: Russia and China have unveiled a joint agenda for building a multi-polar world in the 21st century that is singularly anti-U.S. in spirit, if not in letter.

"All countries of the world must strictly abide by the principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in internal affairs of each other, equality and mutual benefit (and) peaceful coexistence," the two countries said in a Declaration on the World Order in the 21st Century signed on Friday in the Kremlin by the Presidents of Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao.

The Chinese leader arrived in Moscow on Thursday for a four-day official visit.

Admitting that the new world order will be "a long and thorny process," Russia and China stated that "the tasks facing mankind can be achieved only under a just and rational world order based on the universally accepted principles and norms of international law."

"It is necessary to resolve differences and disputes in a peaceful way, avoid unilateral action (and) not to resort to the policy of diktat, the threat or use of force," the two countries said.

Russia and China asserted the right of every country to "manage its affairs in a sovereign way" and called for resolving international issues "through dialogue and consultations on the basis of multilateral collective approaches."

They urged countries to abandon "the confrontational and bloc-centred mentality, efforts to impose monopoly and domination in international relations, attempts to divide countries into the leaders and the led."

In a veiled criticism of U.S. President George W. Bush's "global crusade for liberty" the declaration denounced attempts to "ignore objective processes of social development of sovereign states and impose on them alien models of social and political systems."

Russia and China called for jointly building a new security architecture in the world "based on the respect of the right of all countries to equal security."

On the issue of reforming the United Nations, Moscow and Beijing said the reform "must be based on the principle of consensus and fully reflect the common interests of a large number of member-states."

Russian troops killed

Eleven soldiers were killed and 21 troops and civilians wounded when a bomb ripped through a military truck near a bath house in a southern Russian city near Chechnya.

The bomb equivalent to the power of 5 kg of TNT went off when three packed trucks carrying 60 soldiers pulled by the bath house in Makhachkala, capital of the Russian ethnic republic of Dagestan.

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