The White House on Saturday rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's charge that a US "dictatorship" in world affairs was making problems like terrorism and drug trafficking worse. US President George W. Bush "believes the world must work together in a spirit of co-operation, not creating poles, to solve the common challenges we face," said spokesman Scott McClellan.
"That is why the President has reached out to friends and allies, including President Putin, to win the war on terrorism, stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and advance freedom in places like Afghanistan and Iraq."
Earlier, during a visit to India, Putin had launched a blistering attack on Washington and warned against attempts to rebuild the modern system of international relations along the lines of a uni-polar world.
Rising dominance by a single power would also increase the "global threats of international terrorism, organised crime and drug trafficking," the Russian leader said.
"The greater is the danger of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their coming into hands of terrorists, the more regional conflicts will happen," he said.
"Dictatorship, the more so dictatorship in international affairs, has never solved and could not have solved such problems in the history of mankind," Putin said.
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