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No Barriers Hampering Work Of NGOs In Chechnya - Human Rights Commissioner
GROZNY. Sept 11 (Interfax) - The conditions necessary to ensure international
humanitarian aid organizations' and non-governmental organizations' effective
work in Chechnya have been created, Chechen Human Rights Commissioner Nurdi
Nukhazhiyev said.
"The situation is much safer for humanitarian aid organizations in Chechnya
than in neighboring regions. Naturally enough, the Chechen president has urged
humanitarian aid organizations to move their offices to Chechnya, the more so
since their work centers on this region," Nukhazhiyev told Interfax on Tuesday.
"Assertions that the Chechen authorities are trying to interfere in their are
ungrounded, absurd, and aim to discredit the authorities' economic and social
rehabilitation and stabilization measures," he said.
Nukhazhiyev also denied reports claiming that a group of Chechen human rights
activists, on their way back to the republic from an international conference,
were detained at Moscow's Vnukovo airport.
"Some media outlets are deliberately misusing terms. It was a regular check,
common at any international airport. In this case it's a banal playing with
terms for the lay reader," he said.
Nukhazhiyev said he was against "discussions of the problem of Chechen civil
society in faraway countries.
"I want to make it clear to the broad public that there is no problem in the
development of civil society in Chechnya., only in its restoration. No barriers
to this exist in Chechnya, no barriers hamper discussions of these problems.
They should be discussed in Chechnya, not in Belgium or Switzerland," he said.
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