By empty (12/3/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that alleged attempts to build a \"unipolar world\" were fraught with \"dangerous disproportions in economic and social development\" and with growing terrorism, organized crime, and drug traffic. \"Attempts to rebuild the multifaceted and diverse modern civilization, created by God, in line with the barrack room principles of a unipolar world appear to be extremely dangerous,\" Putin said in a speech at the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi. \"The more persistently and effectively the authors and followers of this idea act the more often mankind will come up against dangerous disproportions in economic and social development and against global threats of international terrorism, organized crime, and drug traffic,\" he said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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