RUSSIA HAS LEGAL RIGHT TO GRANT GIORGADZE POLITICAL ASYLUM – PROSECUTOR
By empty (5/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
If Russia grants political asylum to former Georgian states security service head and leader of Georgia\'s opposition Justice party Igor Giorgadze, it will be acting in accordance with Russian legislation and international law, Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov said. \"Political asylum could be granted to Giorgadze, in the first place, on the basis of Russian legislation which complies with the 1961 convention on granting political asylum to persons who are being persecuted by their state for political reasons,\" Kolesnikov told Interfax on Wednesday. (Interfax).Visit also
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