TRP/O.Dupuis: 40 billion
dollars spent for genocide, how much from Europe?
Brussels, 16 April 2003. In a recent interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station,
the former President of the Supreme Council of Russia, Mr Khasbulatov, stated
that the first 3-4 months of the second war of Chechnya (August-November 1999)
cost around 3 billion dollars and that the costs of the three years of war (2000-2002)
total 10-13 billion a year. As far as this year is concerned, the cost has reached
3.5 billion dollars for the first three months.
Mr Khasbulatov added that Russia’s total expenditure for the three and a
half years of war, that is since the beginning of the new invasion and occupation
of Chechnya in 1999, has now reached 40 billion dollars. These are some of the
figures contained in a report drawn up by Ruslan Khasbulatov and Ivan Rybkin entitled
“economic aspects of the war in Chechnya”.
Question from Olivier Dupuis, Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party and
Member of the European Parliament, to the Commission
“Has the Commission seen the report by Khasbulatov and Rybkin, and is so,
what does it think of it? Does the Commission not agree that this spending is
completely incompatible with the current state of the Russian economy? Moreover,
does the Commission not believe that it is only the economic aid supplied by the
Union and the Member States that enables Russia to find the enormous sums necessary
for the continuation of the war in Chechnya?”
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