VLADIMIR POUTINE ON THE DESTRUCTION BY THE TALIBAN OF STATUARY
PRE-ISLAMIQUE








MOSCOW, March 12.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Oleg Ossipov).  Russian
president Vladimir Poutine regrets the destruction by the taliban
pre-Islamic statuary on the Afghan territory.  He it A declares
Monday, at the time of a press conference donnee at the end of the
talks Russo-Iranian has Moscow.

Vladimir Poutine has advertisement to have evokes this Monday the
situation in the Middle East during talks with his Iranian counterpart
Sayed Mohamad Khatemi.  He A qualifies the close relation-Eastern
problems of difficult before declarer convinces himself that they
could be rules taking into account the interests of all the people of
the area.