MOSCOW FINDS CONVENIENT THE ADOPTION BY THE GENERAL MEETING OF UNO OF
A RESOLUTION AGAINST THE TALIBAN








MOSCOW, March 11.  / Corr.  RIA " Novosti " Piotr GONTCHAROV /. Moscow
finds convenient the adoption by the General meeting of UNO of a
resolution condemning the destruction by the taliban nonIslamic
monuments in Afghanistan, A declares Sunday the vice-minister Russian
for the Businesses etrangeres Serguei Ordjonikidze.




Last nine tens of country, whose Russia, are the joint authors of the
resolution of the General meeting of UNO relating to the " Destruction
of the monuments and relics to Afghanistan ".  In the opinion of the
Member States of UNO, said Serguei Ordjonikidze, " by its cruelty the
mode taliban is isolated more from the world community ".




The resolution expresses the upheaval and the deep preoccupation cause
by the " fatwa " prononcee on last 26 February and prescribing the
destruction of all the statues and all the nonIslamic sanctuaries in
Afghanistan.




Russia finds " very convenient the adoption by the General meeting of
this resolution, all particularly has one moment or the
secretary-general of UNO pays a visit in Pakistan and must have a
meeting not programmee with representants of the taliban ", A
underlines the Russian diplomat.  " We will esperons that Kofi Annan
will be able, with the resolution of the General meeting has the
support, to exert a necessary action on the leaders of the taliban for
arreter without delay this vandalism of the age of the caves ", said
Serguei Ordjonikidze.