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Russian President Reiterates UN Role in Rebuilding Iraq

Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterates Wednesday that the United Nations should lead the way in rebuilding Iraq, reports reaching London said.

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Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterates Wednesday that the United Nations should lead the way in rebuilding Iraq, reports reaching London said.

The world should act in harmony and consultation with each other and on the basis of the United Nations, said Putin, who spent much of his second day of a four-day state visit to Britain sightseeing in the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh.

"Whatever Iraqi leadership is created in the future, it will belegitimate, and it will be able to count on support only if the process goes through the UN," Putin told a gathering of Scottish academic, scientific, business and cultural leaders.

Putin, whose country opposed the Anglo-American war against Iraq, also said that differences over the US-led Iraq war should not bring the world back to crisis.

"Those times have gone," he said.

Stressing his countries' strong ties with Britain and the United States, Putin also stressed that Russia is part of Europe. "Nobody in this room should have any doubt that Russia is part of European culture. There is no doubt that Russia is part of Europe."

In his speech, Putin also called for British investors to step up their involvement in Russia, claiming that his country was a land of "immense opportunities."

"Russia now offers immense opportunities for our own business and for our partners abroad," Putin said.

"We need capital, modern management and technology," he said. "The more we succeed in making our country stable and democratic, the more our economy will be successful."

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