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return to Chechnya senseless – State Council head 11.07.2004, 20.12 GROZNY, July 11 (Itar-Tass) -- The Chechen administration thinks that return of an OSCE mission, which has left the republic on security reasons, is senseless. The statement by Chairman of the Chechen State Council Taus Dzhabrailov is made in the first issue of the Nasha Gazeta information and analytical weekly released in Grozny. The edition will be released under the aegis of the Public Council for Control of Social and Economic Reconstructions formed on July 1. Dzhabrailov responded the appeal of Amnesty International human rights organization, which had called for resuming OSCE activities in Chechnya. Only rebels will benefit from the return, Dzhabrailov said. "Every time OSCE representatives come to Chechnya they start calling for negotiations with the illegal armed units. Rebels start regarding themselves as a political force and trying to make demands via the OSCE mission," Dzhabrailov said. "That exacerbates the situation and damages stability," he added. However, international organizations can help to solve humanitarian and economic problems in Chechnya, Dzhabrailov said. "They could also urge national governments to assist termination of external financing of the illegal armed units in Chechnya," he noted. The Chechen authorities "will not hold any negotiations with the illegal armed units or various sorts of bandits. Our position is firm. Those who blast stadiums and apartment houses understand nothing but the language of force," Dzhabrailov said. |