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Medvedev chairs meeting on security in Ingushetia, Chechenya, Dagestan
Medvedev told a Russian Security Council meeting today held in the republic of Daghestan that up to 75 law enforcement officers, 48 civilians and 112 militants have been killed in the region since the beginning of 2009.
Chairing the Security Council meeting, Medvedev said althought there have been some real results in the fight against militants, but work on destroying terrorism in the North Caucasus must be continued, adding that security in the North Caucasus, and the life and health of people depend on that. The Council agreed that the situation remains complicated in particular in Ingushetia, Dagestan, Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria of the Caucasus region. The Russian President remarked that it is necessary to develop a complex set of measures to counter threats in the Caucasus and gave a task to the National Anti-terrorism Committee to prepare a set of steps to cope with terrorism and banditism in that region. He stressed that it is vital to step up the struggle against the drug trade and drug trafficking, as their profits are used to support terrorism. Medvedev further stressed that problems in the North Caucasus have a systematic character which he said stemmed from such factors as poverty, high unemployment rates, and the huge scale of corruption in local governments. Posted by: Seafarious 2009-06-10 |
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