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September 15, 2003 13:32

• Ella Pamfilova commented on disinclination of Russian human rights activists to send observers to Chechen presidential elections

  On September 11 Ella Pamfilova, the Chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, called the disinclination of the country's leading human rights activists to send observers to the Chechen presidential elections a "moral defeat of the whole community of human rights defenders".

September 15, 2003 13:30

• Freedom of speech is under serious threat in Armenia today

  Chairwoman of the Armenian National Press Club, Ambion Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Narine Mkrtchian announced it in Yerevan on Saturday speaking at a hearing on the issue of the adoption of the new law of Armenia "On the Mass Media".

September 15, 2003 13:29

• UN envoy spotted gap between "words and deeds"

  "Statements of Russian officials do not always reflect the reality," said Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Mading Deng wrapping up his visit to Russia. During his visit to Russia on September 8-12, Mr. Deng traveled to Ingushetia and Chechnya.

September 15, 2003 12:45

• Statement of Chechen Republic's State Council

  The statement reads: "The fight against criminality has for, above all, the object to protect peaceful citizens and it can not be conducted by criminal methods. Each fact of lawlessness and despotism must be investigated, and the guilty must be called to account.

September 15, 2003 11:04

• New proposals for Karabah settlement will be presented to parties during forthcoming visit of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen to region

  "I am not ready to bare the core of the proposals that mediators intend to discuss in Vienna on September 15 owing to objectives reasons. But terms used by the media, in particular, "new" and "modified" proposals, speak for themselves and there is no need for further comments." New OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairman Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia told it at a briefing in Yerevan on September 10.

September 13, 2003 18:23

• Akhmad Kadirov's letter to Defense Minister, Interior Minister, Federal Security Service Director, and Russian Prosecutor General

  The letter reads: "I, Akhmad Hajji Kadirov, the Acting President of the Chechen Republic, demand to establish an interdepartmental commission with your assistance, empower it, find missing people at the highest level, and, which it the most important, reveal and punish the "werewolves on APCs", this "squadron of death", hard, fully according to the law."

September 13, 2003 18:15

• US Administration holds Georgia has achieved much success in fighting trafficking

  On September 11 the White House made public US President George Bush's determination regarding trafficking. It is pointed out in the determination that Georgia made notable progress in fighting trafficking in persons.

September 13, 2003 16:28

• Georgian party will bring suit to the Hague International Criminal Court on facts of Georgian population genocide in Abkhazia

  Georgian State Minister Avtandil Jorbenadze declared it after he had met with Tamaz Nadareishvili, the leader of the legitimate authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia in exile, on September 11.

September 13, 2003 15:55

• Ruben Shugarian: "Armenia is interested in certain stability in Azerbaijan"

  Answering a question on the forthcoming presidential election in Azerbaijan, he refused to make any forecasts, only noted that in the view of stability preservation "the minimum of status quo changes and shakes in Azerbaijan were desirable".

September 12, 2003 20:47

• Tbilisi is discontented with agreement between Abkhazia and Krasnodar Territory

  "It is inadmissible that the Russian leadership does not pay attention to the unconcealed breach of the neighboring country's sovereignty by Russia's subject," said Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Kakha Sikharulidze.

September 12, 2003 20:42

• Regular OSCE monitoring on border between Nagorny Karabah and Azerbaijan went off without incidents

  The OSCE Mission held a regular monitoring yesterday on the contact line of Nagorny Karabah's and Azerbaijan's armed forces in the direction of Agdam near the village of Bash Karvend.

September 12, 2003 20:32

• Russian interior troops have lost 65 servicemen killed Chechnya this year

  A total of 4,720 servicemen of Russian security agencies were killed in Chechnya from October 1, 1999 to July of this year.

September 12, 2003 20:29

• Workers of Buynaksk branch of Daggas have been holding hunger strike for six days because of wages non-payment

  The people left their work places and stay with bedding in the direction's office. They demanded that the six-month arrears of wages be paid.

September 12, 2003 20:21

• Chechen militants have murdered village school teacher

  Chechen militants have killed a school teacher in the village of Dargo, the Vedeno district of Chechnya, sources at the press service of the Chechen Interior Ministry said on Friday.

September 12, 2003 17:43

• Appeal of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan to UN High Commissioner for Refugees

  "We want you to answer the question of vital importance: what bad things did Chechen refugees do to the United Nations so that we are not given proper aid and international status is not granted in order that those who wish, many ill people are among them, can leave for the third country?" reads the appeal.

September 12, 2003 15:24

• Statement of Chechen Human Rights Center Director to international human rights organizations

  The statement reads, "We ask you once again to interfere in the disastrous condition of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan, which is obviously of discriminating nature."

September 12, 2003 13:48

• Reporters Without Borders published first worldwide press freedom index

  According to analysts, the first worldwide index of press freedom published by the Reporters Without Borders has some surprises for Western democracies.

September 12, 2003 13:02

• Group Ago insists on allocation of frequencies to A1+ and Noyan Tapan TV companies

  On September 8 the Progress Report of the Monitoring Group (Group Ago) on Armenia's and Azerbaijan's honoring of commitments to the Council of Europe was published. The Report was submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

September 12, 2003 12:21

• Inhabitants of tent camps in Ingushetia will participate in Chechen presidential election

  It was announced by Presidential Commission on Human Rights Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova.

September 12, 2003 11:29

• Not having obtained land, villagers appealed to European Court

  The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg will consider a complaint of 450 residents of the Baksan district's Dugulubey village.