| Chechen refugees
to leave Georgia for Chechnya RosBusinessConsulting. Monday, Sep. 1, 2003, 7:43 PM Moscow Time The process of the organized return of Chechen refugees living in Georgia to Chechnya will start at the end of September 2003. This agreement has been acheived in Tbilisi at negotiations of Russian Minister for Social and Economic Development of Chechnya Stanislav Ilyasov and Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and State Minister Avtandil Dzhorbenadze, sources in the Georgian state chancellery told RBC. According to the state chancellery, there are 3,600 Chechen refugees in Georgia currently. Some 80 percent of them live in the Pankisi Gorge. According to Ilyasov, Russia guarantees safe return of refugees to Chechnya, the provision of home or about $12,000 in compensations per family. Ilyasov said that the negotiations with the Georgian leaders had been successful. The exact plan of the return of refugees will be worked out in the first half of September during a visit of a delegation of the Chechen administration to the Pankisi Gorge. |