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October, 14, 2007

Statement by Zhalauddin Saralyapov, the Chairman of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

SIA CHECHENPRESS, 14 October 2007

I was co-opted into the ChRI’s State Committee for Defence (Majlisul Shura), which is an advisory body, by the Decree No 066 of 20 January 2006 by late President Abdul-Halim Sadulaev. That decision of the President was intended to make the work of the ChRI Military Command, in this emergency period, more effective, in accordance with the ChRI Law ‘On the State of Emergency”.

As the test of time and further events showed, in the current conditions any further subordination of the Chairman of the Parliament to the State Committee for Defence would jeopardize the Parliament’s performance of its functions as one of the branches of ChRI government, lawfully elected by the Chechen nation.

Knowing this, and acting in the interest of the Chechen nation, President Dokka Umarov, supported by the other members of the ChRI State Committee for Defence, issued the Decree No 160 of 3 October 2007. That decree orders to expel Zhalauddin Saralyapov, the Chairman of the ChRI Parliament, from the State Committee. I express my full support to that decision.

In connection with the above, I state the following:

Starting from 3 October 2007, the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria shall continue its work independently from the State Committee for Defence (Majlisul Shura), in close co-ordination with the ChRI President and all the systems of ChRI’s presidential power, in accordance with the Constitution of Chechen Republic approved by the Parliament’s Decision No 108 of 12 March 1992.

The ChRI Parliament shall function to the extent allowed by the circumstances of war. However, its work will go on regardless of the quorum, because some number of the Members has been killed, and some others have defected to the enemy. The Parliament’s work, and the duties laid upon its Members by the Chechen votes in 1997, shall terminate not before the Parliament passes its powers to the new elected members. This may occur only after the ChRI is de-militarized, and a free election is held.

Chairman of the Parliament of the ChRI, Zhalauddin Saralyapov
http://www.chechenpress.co.uk/english/news/2007/10/14/01.shtml