President Vladimir Putin has likened the European Union\'s call for Moscow to establish a dialogue with the Chechen separatists to bin Laden\'s truce proposal to Europe. \"As previously, we are now being urged to start talks and a dialogue with the people whom we and our partners in Muslim countries consider terrorists. Terrorist Number One, bin Laden, made a truce proposal to Europe which, as far as I know, was rejected,\" Putin said at a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Lipetsk on Wednesday. \"Why? And why are similar calls addressed to Moscow?\" Putin said. \"Therefore, Moscow does not think everything is constructive in the criticism of Russia concerning the situation in Chechnya.\" He noted, however, that Russia \"takes this criticism seriously, responds to it and does so very constructively.\" (Interfax)