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| Caucasus |
| Azerbaijan closes Chechen offices... |
| 2002-10-26 |
| The authorities of Azerbaijan have closed down a representative office of the so-called Cultural Center of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the republic's capital Baku, reported Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolai Ryabov. The ambassador thanked the Azerbaijani authorities for their decision to close down the center. Azerbaijan's power structures hinted that the decision had been prompted by the terrorist act in Moscow. He's referring to the cell phone calls to the command center there... Ryabov said such "representative offices" - residences of the Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, which exist in 10 countries (the Baltic states, Denmark, Turkey, Poland, etc.) - must all be closed. He stressed that the most active of them was the "Ichkerian representative office" in Georgia, adding that he hoped the Georgian authorities would follow Baku's example and close it down. Maskhadov is making a pretty nice living, having ten houses in ten different safe havens. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Good idea. Restraint ain't the watchword in Moscow. And I am with Putin the Impaler. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-10-26 20:55:32 |