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| Chechen envoy and refugees cleared for entry to Russia |
| 2006-07-23 |
| (Interfax) - Chechen parliamentary deputy Magomed Khambiyev and two Chechen refugees who have returned to Russia from Azerbaijan have left the Derbent police department and proceeded to Chechnya. Following the intervention by commanders of the regional operations headquarters and of the combined force in the North Caucasus, and by Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, the two refugees, who were returning with me to Russia from Azerbaijan were cleared," Khambiyev told Interfax by phone on Sunday. Khambiyev said he had been entrusted "to hold talks with representatives of the Chechen communities in Azerbaijan, Turkey and other countries, and to persuade them to come back to Russia. The Chechen authorities' swift moves will facilitate the mission." Khambiyev earlier told Interfax that when he was returning from Azerbaijan, he and his two companions - a man and a woman, were detained on the Russian side of the border and were moved to the Derbent police department. Khambiyev said he had had "a series of meetings with forced migrants in Azerbaijan, who proposed repatriating [Khambiyev's] relatives first, and said they would decide, judging from their example, whether to return to Chechnya or whether to stay in Azerbaijan." Speaker of the lower house of the Chechen parliament Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov told Interfax that "the incident was immediately reported to the command of the combined forces and of the regional operations headquarters, and to Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, who got in touch with law enforcement services in Dagestan and settled the incident," Abdurakhmanov said. "Khambiyev's mission is very important and no one will be allowed to hamper it," he said. "Khambiyev was instructed to meet with people who, for political, military or other reasons, left Chechnya and Russia during the counter- terror operation, and who call themselves representatives of "non- existent Ichkeria," Abdurakhmanov told Interfax on Sunday. |
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