Pour compl\u00e9ter la nouvelle donn\u00e9e il y a deux jours<\/a> sur un contact t\u00e9l\u00e9phonique entre le Premier ministre indien Singh et Vladimir Poutine, nous donnons cette extrait de l’excellent article de Martin Walker, de UPI, Multipolar World<\/a>, qui concerne justement ce contact.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tApr\u00e8s avoir pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 certains cas pr\u00e9cis d’effronteries russes, o\u00f9 Poutine ne s’inqui\u00e8te plus gu\u00e8re des remontrances washingtoniennes, Walter poursuit : \u00ab If Washington were still the hub and Russia just another spoke, such effrontery against the White House’s known positions and such independent diplomacy would have been punished, rather than rewarded with red carpet treatment. But then the White House knew that President Bush’s new close friend, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, had telephoned Russian President Vladimir Putin at the weekend to discuss how they could concoct some kind of diplomatic deal with Iran that precluded the preferred U.S. position of a swift referral to the United Nations Security Council for sanctions.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb India, for all its pleasure at the new nuclear cooperation deal signed with Bush in New Delhi last week, cannot afford to offend Iran on whose oil and gas its future energy security depends. Russia shrinks from offending one of its biggest customers by referring Iran to the United Nations. After all, the Russians are building Iran’s big new reactor at Bushehr.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n