From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/4/2006 6:51 AM
Senate houses conference on situation in Chechnya
The current situation in Chechnya and foreign aid to this country will be discussed at a conference that will be held in the Senate, the upper house of the Czech parliament.
The conference is organised by the Berkat civic association and senator Jaromir Stetina (for the Greens) who worked in the area as a journalist.
The conference aims to acquaint the public with the situation in North Causasus and debate Chechen-Russian relations and the events occurring in Chechnya in the last several years.
Stetina informed about the conference on Wednesday when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Prague. Stetina said that it is Putin who has the "political responsibility for the genocide of the Chechen nation and for the suppression of freedom of speech and democracy in Russia."
Russian steps in Chechnya have been recently criticised in a written statement, signed by former Czech president Vaclav Havel and other internationally known personalities. The statement says that the Russian government liquidates freedoms gained in the dissolution of the Soviet empire under the pretext that it eliminates "Chechen terrorism".
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Prague today that the political process of Chechnya's reconstruction has been completed. He said that Moscow annually earmarks some 120 million crowns for war stricken Chechnya.
The humanitarian organisations and NGOs operating in the Northern Caucasus point to the violation of human rights and the irregular course of the Chechen presidential and parliamentary elections.
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