News Digest
U.K. BACKS AZERBAIJAN LINE ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH – MINISTRY
By empty (9/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Britain backs Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev\'s line on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry cited British Ambassador to Azerbaijan Laurie Bristow as saying at a meeting on Thursday with Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev. Bristow also said at the meeting, held in Baku, that Azerbaijan was working successfully to settle the conflict, according to a ministry release. (Interfax).BESLAN MOTHERS REQUEST POLITICAL ASYLUM ABROAD
By empty (9/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Beslan Mothers Committee on Thursday circulated an appeal by victims of last year\'s school siege in Beslan, urging foreign governments to grant political asylum to the parents and relatives of the victims. \"We, the parents and relatives of the victims killed in the terrorist attack on School No.1 in Beslan on September 3, have lost all hope for a fair investigation into the causes of our tragedy and for finding the perpetrators.RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS END MISSION ON TAJIK-AFGHAN BORDER
By empty (9/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian border guards have transferred control of the last sector of the Pyandzh border sector to Tajikistan, deputy head of the Russian Border Service Lt. Gen. Viktor Trufanov told Interfax on Thursday.GUERRILLA GROUP DESTROYED IN CHECHNYA
By empty (8/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen police have eliminated a guerrilla group which had been organizing terrorist attacks against top republic and federal troop commanders, Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Interfax on Wednesday. \"A guerrilla group which planned to carry out large-scale terror attacks was eliminated in the village of Novoterskoye, in the Naurskaya district, on Wednesday morning. The group had caches of shoulder-held grenade launchers, flame-throwers, submachine guns and other ammunition,\" the minister said.Visit also
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