The Visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the ChRI, Ilyas Akhmadov, to the United States of America continuesThe visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the ChRI, Ilyas
Akhamdov, to the United States continues, with the purpose to draw the
attention of the government and people of America to the continuing
Russian policy of genocide against the Chechen nation. Ilyas Akhmadov
met with political and public figures, with governmental and
non-governmental organization of the USA. Key themes of the visit are
the necessity of a political solution of the war in Chechnya, to reveal
the nature of the Russian propaganda which asserted the presence of
Chechen fighters in Afghanistan, and the necessity of increasing the
political and diplomatic pressure on the Russian leadership.
During the last two weeks, the Minster of Foreign Affairs of the ChRI
had meetings with representatives of the US State Department, with
members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, with the US
Council for External Relations, with humanitarian and legal
organizations, with people from leading American publications and
tv-companies, as well as with the American public.
On 23 January, at the meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
the ChRI, the represenative of the US State Department confirmed that
the USA don't have any confirmation whatever of the presence of one
single Chechen in Afghanistan. This was also confirmed at the meetings
of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the ChRI with other US state
institutions with direct relation to the military operation of the USA
in Afghanistan.
Further, the USA realizes quite well the fact that the attempts of the
Russian leadership to use the changing international situation for the
justification of the numerous and continuing brutal war crimes and
crimes against humanity committed by the Russian state on the territory
of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya are unfounded.
The US Congress and State Department completely realize that the fight
of the Chechen nation for its inherent rights and freedoms has nothing
in common with the situation in Afghanistan, and that the
Russian-Chechen conflict only can be solved by political negotiations
between the two sides. The USA are disappointed by Russia's
non-fulfillment of their numerous promises to begin a process of
political negotiations, and they voice their deep concern about the
continuous Russian acts of mass robbery, terror and killing of civilian
citizens of Chechnya.
In the light of the continuing failure of the Russian leadership to
heed
to the principles and values of the civilized world, the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the ChRI received understanding from the US side
about the necessity of an increasing political and diplomatic pressure
on Russia at all levels. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the ChRI
hopes for the adoption by the United States of America and other
democratic states in the international community of measures of
pressure
for a stop of the war in Chechnya and the start of real Russian-Chechen
peace negotiations.
[unauthorized translation by Norbert Strade] |
