| The leader of the YABLOKO party Grigory
Yavlinsky proposed holding a peace conference on Chechnya to
further regulate the situation in the republic. According to Interfax,
Yavlinsky made such a statement in an interview on the Itogi programme
on TVS television channel. "We think it absolutely necessary
to conduct a peace conference on Chechnya in Moscow, it should be
chaired by the President of Russia and based on the Russian Constitution
and Russian laws. We think that all the opposing parties, all the
forces that are significant in Chechnya, except for war criminals,
should participate in this conference," said Yavlinsky. According
to Yavlinsky, an international commission should be convoked prior
to the conference to decide who should be considered to be a war
criminal. "We presume that a very authoritative commission,
involving the Council of Europe and international organizations,
should be created to determine the real situation with the war criminals
in Chechnya and that the conference should chaired by the President.
This is an absolutely must. And then we will have an answer to the
question [about war criminals]," said Yavlinsky.
See also:
War
in Chechnya
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Grani.ru, June 8, 2003
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