58 PERCENT OF ARMENIA’S POPULATION DISTRUST U.S.

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.04.2007 15:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to a survey conducted by the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs and WorldPublicOpinion.org, most of world’s
population think the U.S. fails to perform the role of the world
leader. The survey includes 17 countries-China, India, the United
States, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, Poland, Iran, Mexico,
South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Argentina, Peru, Israel,
Armenia-and the Palestinian territories. These represent more than
55 percent of the world population. Majority turns down the idea
that the United States, as the only super power, should dominate in
resolution of world problems and offer the U.S. cooperation with the
other countries for the purpose.

38 percent of Russians and 34 percent of Ukrainians think that the
U.S. should abandon the idea of solving the problems alone. This
index shows a high degree of aversion to U.S. foreign policy that
was earlier so vividly demonstrated by Argentineans and Palestinians
only. In the U.S. 10 percent stand for total leadership of their
country, 75 percent offer to share the burden of responsibility with
other states, 12 percent propose to focus on domestic problems.

58 percent of the Armenian population do not trust the U.S. Extremely
high index of distrust was fixed in Russia (73 percent) and France
(72 percent).

Majority of population of 13 out of 15 states think that the
U.S. abuses the role of a "world policeman", Washington ProFile
reports.